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Rakesh Sood joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. He has served as India’s first Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and later as Ambassador to Afghanistan, Nepal and France. After retiring in 2013, Ambassador Sood was Special Envoy of the Prime Minister for Disarmament and Non ~ Proliferation till […]

Sidharth Raimedhi is a Fellow at CSDR, where he rakes up traditional security issues while also writing strategic wargames. He is a columnist for the Print, and likes to coin new terms and in niche circles. He is known as somewhat of a coinnoisseur.

Shiv Sahai is a retired Indian Police Service Officer of J&K cadre. He has addressed issues of traditional and non-traditional security during his stint at the National Security Council Secretariat. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research.

Bashir Ali Abbas is a Research Associate at CSDR and a South Asia Visiting Fellow at the Stimson Center. He writes analysis on the Middle East for various platforms, including The Indian Express. In his free time, he talks to himself and asks whether it’s the Middle East or West Asia.

Ankit is a Research Associate at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research and an Editorial Consultant at India’s World magazine. His research work focuses primarily on Indian Foreign Policy and Tech Policy, but his research interests vary widely, as befitting a self-styled ‘Jack of all trades, Master of none.’ In his spare time, Ankit […]

Devika Makkat is a Program Associate at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research, New Delhi where she focuses her research efforts on the Europe vertical, and the intersections of Indian domestic and foreign policy. She enjoys dabbling with the politics of cinema – at a highly armchair expert level – exploring the sociological narratives […]