C Raja Mohan

Distinguished Fellow
C Raja Mohan is a Distinguished Fellow at CSDR and directs CSDR’s Geopolitics and International Security Program. He is also the Korea Chair, 2025, for a ROK-India research project supported by the Korea Foundation.

Prof. Mohan is 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 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, during 1995-2005. 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.

Areas of
Expertise

Great Power Relations

India-Europe Relations

Indian Foreign Policy

International Security

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