Founding Director, India Centre at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

South Asia Chair, Asian Views on America's Role in Asia



C. Raja Mohan is the founding director of the India Centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A leading analyst of India’s foreign policy, Mohan is also an expert on South Asian security, great-power relations in Asia, and arms control. He is the foreign affairs columnist for the Indian Express, and a visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. From 2009 to 2010, Mohan was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress. Previously, he was a professor of South Asian studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. He also served as the diplomatic editor and Washington correspondent of The Hindu. Mohan’s most recent books are Modi’s World: Expanding India’s Sphere of Influence and India’s Naval Strategy and Asian Security, coedited with Anit Mukherjee.