Senior Fellow for South Asia
Expertise:
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South Asian political and security issues
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Regional nuclear and missile issues
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Regional terrorism
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Maritime and naval affairs
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Energy security
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Civil-military relations
Background: Rahul Roy-Chaudhury is the Senior Fellow for South Asia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he heads its South Asia programme. Earlier, he served in the National Security Council Secretariat in the Prime Minister's Office in India. Prior to his official appointment, he was on the faculty of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. He has also been a Senior Research Fellow at the International Policy Institute at King's College, London.
He lectures regularly at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, the Joint Services Command & Staff College (Defence Academy) in Shrivenham, and the University of Oxford. He briefs IISS Corporate Members, Ministers, senior officials and the international media on South Asian security issues. He organises a private and off-the-record annual meeting bringing together high-level diplomats, senior intelligence officials and influential experts from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan to discuss counter-terrorism and the future of Afghanistan.
In India, Rahul Roy-Chaudhury was a guest lecturer at the National Defence College, the Foreign Service Institute and the College of Naval Warfare. In 2001-02, he was a Member of the Indian government's Committee on the Establishment of a National Defence University (CONDU). In 1996–2000, he was the Indian representative to the ‘Maritime Cooperation Working Group’ of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury writes on South Asia for IISS publications, including the annual Military Balance (2003-) and Strategic Survey (2003-2009, 2011), as well as the occasional Strategic Comments.
He has also written on ‘India Versus Pakistan: From Partition to the Present (RUSI Journal, August 2009); ‘The Security Council and the India-Pakistan Wars’ in Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh, and Dominik Zaum (editors), The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, April 2008); ‘India’ in Stuart Farson, Peter Gill, Mark Phythian and Shlomo Shapiro, PSI Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence: National Approaches (Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport CT, USA, April 2008); ‘Missile Flight Tests: Challenges and Opportunities for CBMs’ in Major General Jamshed Ayaz Khan (retd) (editor), Prospects of Peace, Stability and Prosperity in South Asia (Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, 2005); and ‘Nuclear Stability in South Asia: Hand of Friendship’ (World Today, Royal Institute for International Affairs, June 2003).
He has also written two books, India's Maritime Security (IDSA & Knowledge World, New Delhi, 2000) and Sea Power and Indian Security (Brassey's, UK, London, 1995). He is currently completing his IISS Adelphi book on Rising India: Challenges & Opportunities.
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury was educated at the Universities of East Anglia and Oxford.
Joined IISS: October 2003
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