Launch of Carnegie India: India and the Major Powers.
Carnegie India, the sixth international center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, opened on April 6, 2016 in New Delhi. As with Carnegie’s centers in Beijing, Beirut, Brussels, Moscow, and Washington, Carnegie India is staffed and led by local experts who collaborate extensively with colleagues around the world.
Carnegie India, the sixth international center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, opens on April 6, 2016 in New Delhi.
The center’s research and programmatic focus will include the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations. It will build on decades of scholarship on the region across Carnegie’s programs, in particular the work of Vice President of Studies George Perkovich, Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis, and Senior Associate Milan Vaishnav, while placing special emphasis on developing a cadre of young, up-and-coming Indian scholars.
Speakers:
Dmitri Trenin - Director, Carnegie Moscow Center
Ruan Zongze - Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, China Institute of International Studies
C. Raja Mohan - Director, Carnegie India.
Press Release
NEW DELHI—The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is pleased to launch Carnegie India, its sixth international center.
In a meeting with Carnegie President William J. Burns, members of Carnegie’s board of trustees, and Carnegie India staff in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Carnegie’s initiative to open the center, saying that it is reflective of democratic traditions and liberal thinking in the country.
Prime Minister Modi expressed his hope that the center would further promote the climate of research in India, especially among youth, and would strengthen the strategic partnership between India, the United States, and the rest of the world.
Carnegie India’s research and programmatic focus will include the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations. Led and staffed by Indian experts, it will build on decades of scholarship on India and South Asia across Carnegie’s programs, while placing special emphasis on developing a cadre of young, up-and-coming Indian scholars.
“India’s rise is a significant and dramatic feature of today’s evolving international landscape,” Burns said. “I am convinced that Carnegie India will make an enormously important contribution to helping thinkers and doers around the world understand Indian perspectives and that it will add an important global perspective to India’s own domestic and international evolution.”
The center’s founding director, C. Raja Mohan, has been a nonresident senior associate at Carnegie since 2012. He has also served as a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, a visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board.
“I am deeply honored to serve as the center’s founding director and to work even more closely with longtime Carnegie colleagues across the world,” Mohan said. “I am confident that Carnegie India will add to Carnegie’s global reputation for quality, integrity, and independence.”
The center’s creation has been supported by Carnegie India’s Founders Committee, a group of Indian and international donors co-chaired by former cabinet secretary and Indian ambassador to the United States, Naresh Chandra, and former United States ambassador to India, Frank Wisner.
Ahead of a dinner to celebrate the launch of Carnegie India, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises and Carnegie Board Member Sunil Mittal said: “As India emerges as a global economic force, a think tank of Carnegie India’s caliber will enrich the policy debate in India and increase the connection of ideas between New Delhi and the other capitals of the world.”
Read more about Carnegie India
CarnegieIndia.org/about
Access live coverage of the public launch of Carnegie India starting at 10:00 a.m. in New Delhi
CarnegieIndia.org/launch
Press Contact:
Clara Hogan | +1 202 939 2233 | chogan@ceip.org
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Read more at: http://carnegieindia.org/2016/04/05/launch-of-carnegie-india/iwns
Foreign Secretary Shri. Jaishankar Speaking at the Launch.
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