Rahul Roy-Chaudhury

Senior Fellow for South Asia

Expertise:

• South Asian political and security issues
• Regional nuclear and missile issues
• Regional terrorism
• Maritime and naval affairs
• Energy security
• Civil-military relations

Background: Rahul Roy-Chaudhury is the Senior Fellow for South Asia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, where he manages 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 is on the visiting faculty of the National Defence College and the Foreign Service Institute (New Delhi), and the College of Naval Warfare (Mumbai). He is the research supervisor for South Asia for the Royal College of Defence Studies, London. In 1996–2000, he was the Indian representative to the ‘Maritime Cooperation Working Group’ of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.

He writes regularly on South Asia for IISS publications, including Strategic Survey , The Military Balance and Strategic Comments . He has also recently written on 'The Indian Experience – Technology Integration and Self-sufficiency’ in Positioning Navies for the Future (Canberra 2006), ‘Missile Flight Tests: Challenges and Opportunities for CBMs' in Prospects of Peace, Stability and Prosperity in South Asia (Islamabad 2005), ‘India and Pakistan: Nuclear-Related Programmes and Aspirations at Sea’ in South Asia’s Nuclear Security Dilemma: India, Pakistan, and China (New York 2005), and Nuclear Doctrine, Declaratory Policy, and Escalation Control (Henry L. Stimson Centre, Washington D.C., May 2004). He has published two books, India's Maritime Security (IDSA & Knowledge World, New Delhi, 2000) and Sea Power and Indian Security (Brassey's, UK, London, 1995). He was educated at the Universities of East Anglia and Oxford.

Joined IISS: October 2003

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