Prof. Sumit Ganguly is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Huntington Program on Strengthening the US-India Relationship at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University in Bloomington. He previously taught at James Madison College of Michigan State University faculty, Hunter College of the City University of New York, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at Columbia University in New York City. He has also been a Fellow and a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. In 2018-2019 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His research and writing focused on South Asia and have been supported by grants from the Asia Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the United States Institute of Peace and the United States Army War College.

He serves on the editorial boards of Current History, Modern Asian Studies,  the Journal of Democracy, Foreign Policy Analysis,The Nonproliferation Review, Pacific Affairs, International Security, Small Wars and Insurgencies and The Washington Quarterly. He is also the founding editor of both the India Review and Asian Security, two referred journals published by Taylor and Francis, London. Professor Ganguly is the author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books on contemporary South Asia. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent books are The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order (with William R. Thompson and Manjeet S. Pardesi), Cambridge University Press, 2023 and the Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics(co-edited with Eswaran Sridharan), Oxford University Press, 2024.