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Visiting Professor of International Relations, Entrepreneurship and Management, Ashoka University, Chair, Ashoka Centre for China Studies
PhD University of Delhi, Ancient India
M.A. (History) St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
B.A. (Hons) History St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
Shivshankar Menon is a Distinguished Fellow at CSEP, Visiting Professor at Ashoka University and Chair of the Ashoka Centre for China Studies. Menon served as National Security Advisor to the Indian Prime Minister (2010-2014); Foreign Secretary of India (2006-2009); and as Ambassador and High Commissioner of India to Israel (1995-1997), Sri Lanka (1997-2000), China (2000-2003) and Pakistan (2003-2006). He has served in the mission to the IAEA in Vienna and in the Department of Atomic Energy in Mumbai.
He was also a Distinguished Fellow with Brookings India. He has published Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy in 2016 and India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present (Brookings Press USA, & Penguin Random House India) in April 2021.
Menon has been a Richard Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies at MIT and Fisher Family Fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard University. In 2010, he was chosen by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” He attended the Scindia School, Gwalior and St. Stephens College of the University of Delhi, where he studied ancient Indian history and Chinese. He speaks Chinese and some German.
2025 India in a World Adrift: A Rising Power Takes its Place Among Rivals Lowy Institute Paper / Penguin Special
2026 A New World Order? Careful What You Wish For Texas National Security Review / CSEP
2021 India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present Brookings Institution Press
2020 India’s Foreign Affairs Strategy Brookings India Impact Series
2016 Choices: Inside the Making of India’s Foreign Policy Brookings Institution Press / Penguin
2014 Nonalignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty-First Century (Co-author) Penguin India
Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star (Japan, 2022): Conferred by the Emperor of Japan in recognition of contributions to strengthening bilateral relations, maritime security, and a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Top 100 Global Thinkers (Foreign Policy Magazine, 2010): Selected for steering India’s national security apparatus during a period of global economic restructuring and regional challenge.
Madhav Award (The Scindia School, 2000): Recognised as an alumnus of exceptional eminence for distinguished public service and national security contributions.
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