Brahma Chellaney is an international-affairs geostrategist and the author of nine books, including "Water: Asia's New Battleground" (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Bernard Schwartz Book Award for its "outstanding contribution to advancing the understanding of contemporary Asia." He received the $20,000 award from the Asia Society at a special event in New York in early 2013. His earlier book, "Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan" (New York: Harper Paperback, 2010), was an international bestseller.
Presently, he is a Bosch Public Policy Fellow with The Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC; a Professor of Strategic Studies at the independent Center for Policy Research in New Delhi; a Fellow of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo; a trustee of the National Book Trust; and an affiliate with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization at King's College London. He has served as a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the foreign minister of India. Before that, he was an adviser to India's National Security Council, serving as convener of the External Security Group of the National Security Advisory Board.
As a specialist on international strategic issues, he held appointments at Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and the Australian National University. He is also a columnist and commentator. His opinion articles have been published in the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Fina... See more
Brahma Chellaney is an international-affairs geostrategist and the author of nine books, including "Water: Asia's New Battleground" (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Bernard Schwartz Book Award for its "outstanding contribution to advancing the understanding of contemporary Asia." He received the $20,000 award from the Asia Society at a special event in New York in early 2013. His earlier book, "Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan" (New York: Harper Paperback, 2010), was an international bestseller.
Presently, he is a Bosch Public Policy Fellow with The Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC; a Professor of Strategic Studies at the independent Center for Policy Research in New Delhi; a Fellow of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo; a trustee of the National Book Trust; and an affiliate with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization at King's College London. He has served as a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the foreign minister of India. Before that, he was an adviser to India's National Security Council, serving as convener of the External Security Group of the National Security Advisory Board.
As a specialist on international strategic issues, he held appointments at Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and the Australian National University. He is also a columnist and commentator. His opinion articles have been published in the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, Times of India, Economic Times, Mint, Japan Times, La Vanguardia, Straits Times, South China Morning Post, and other important newspapers. And he has often appeared on CNN and BBC, among others.
He sits on a number of national and international organizational boards, including the academic council of The Henry Jackson Society, London. He has lectured at military war colleges, major think-tanks and universities, and international business forums like the CLSA Investors' Forum, Global ARC, and FutureChina Global Forum, and participated in high-powered initiatives like the Bergedorf Roundtable, the Singapore Global Forum, and the World Economic Forum at Davos.
