On Friday 19 October 2007 Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will speak on the topic of "China’s Military Use of Space" from 11 am - 12 noon.
Ashley J. Tellis is Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, specialising in international security, defence, and Asian strategic issues. He was recently on assignment to the U.S. Department of State as Senior Adviser to the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicolas Burns, during which time he was intimately involved in negotiating the civil nuclear agreement with India. Previously he was commissioned into the Foreign Service and served as Senior Adviser to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. He also served on the National Security Council staff as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning and Southwest Asia.
Prior to his government service, Dr Tellis was Senior Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation and Professor of Policy Analysis at the RAND Graduate School. He is the author of India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture (2001) and co-author of Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (2000). He is also Research Director of the Strategic Asia program at NBR and co-editor of Strategic Asia 2006–07: Trade, Interdependence, and Security; Strategic Asia 2005–06: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty; and Strategic Asia 2004–05: Confronting Terrorism in the Pursuit of Power. His academic publications have appeared in many edited volumes and journals and he recently wrote China’s Military Space Strategy in the autumn edition of Survival, the IISS quarterly.
If you would like to attend this lecture, please RSVP Clara Catherall on E-mail:
catherall@iiss.org; Tel: 020 7395 9156; or Fax: 020 7395 9116
The event will be held at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX
This lecture was made possible through the generous support of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
