“India, Russia, and the Crisis in Ukraine”
Dr. Sumit Ganguly
Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution Stanford University
Sumit Ganguly is a Senior Fellow and directs the Huntington Program on Strengthening US-
India Relations at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is Distinguished Professor of
Political Science Emeritus and the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and
Civilizations Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has previously taught at James
Madison College of Michigan State University, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the
City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Ganguly has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
in Washington, DC, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
and at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, a
Guest Scholar at the Center for Cooperative Monitoring in Albuquerque and a Visiting Scholar at
the German Institute for International and Area Studies in Hamburg. He was also the holder of
the Ngee Ann Chair in International Politics at the Rajaratnam School for International Studies at
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in the spring term of 2010. In 2018 and 2019 he
was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Professor Ganguly is member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on the editorial boards of Asian Security,
Current History, Journal of Democracy, Foreign Policy Analysis, The Nonproliferation Review,
Pacific Affairs, International Security and Small Wars and Insurgencies. A specialist on the
contemporary politics of South Asia is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 20 books on
the region. His most recent book (edited with Eswaran Sridharan) is the Oxford Handbook of
Indian Politics.