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Chair
DR. SANJAYA BARU

Distinguished Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute of
Defense Studies and Analysis and Member, Governing
Council, ICWA

Sanjaya Baru is Distinguished Fellow, United Service Institution of India (USI)
& M.P. Institute for Defence Studies & Analysis (IDSA). He has been editor
of India’s major financial newspapers, The Economic Times, Financial Express
and Business Standard. He was Media Advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and Director for Geo-economics and Strategy, International Institute of
Strategic Studies, London.
He was professor of economics at University of Hyderabad, Indian Council for
Research on International Economic Relations and the Lee Kuan Yew School
of Public Policy, Singapore. He was Secretary-General, Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce & Industry. He was member of India’s National
Security Advisory Board in 1999-2001 and member of the Governing Board
of the Centre for Policy Research. He is Founder-Trustee, Forum for National
Security Studies, India; and, Visiting Faculty, Indian School of Public Policy.
He was also member India-ASEAN Eminent Persons Group in 2010. He is an
Independent Director on the board of Wockhardt Ltd.
His publications include The Strategic Consequences of India’s Economic Rise
(2006); India and the World: Essays on Geo-economics and Foreign Policy( 2016);
The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh
(2014);1991: How PV Narasimha Rao Made History (2016);Powers Shifts and Trade
Blocs (Editor, 2015); The Bombay Plan: A Blueprint for Economic Resurgence (Editor,
2018); Beyond Covid’s Shadow: Mapping Indian Economy’s Resurgence (Editor,
2020); India’s Power Elite: Caste, Class and a Cultural Revolution, (Forthcoming,
Penguin, 2021).

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