Prof. Mohan is a Distinguished Professor & Senior Fellow Designate, MJIAS, and a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, and was previously the Director of ISAS. Raja Mohan was the founding director of Carnegie India in Delhi, the sixth international center of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. He was associated with several Indian think tanks, including the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses, the Observer Research Foundation, and the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. He was a Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He served on India’s National Security Advisory Board and was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Kluge Center, US Library of Congress, Washington, DC, during 2009-10. He convened the India chapter of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from 1995 to 2005. He has published widely on India’s foreign and security policies, Asian geopolitics, and the global governance of advanced technologies. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and the Indian Express.

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Korea Chair Bulletin: October-November 2025
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Korea Chair Bulletin: September-October 2025
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