October 7, 2019

Tanvi Madan is a Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy Program, and Director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Madan’s work explores India’s role in the world and its foreign policy, focusing in particular on India’s relations with China and the United States. She also researches the intersection between Indian energy policies and its foreign and security policies. 

Dr. Madan is the author of the forthcoming book Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations during the Cold War (Brookings Institution Press, January 2020). She is currently completing a monograph on India’s foreign policy diversification strategy. 

Previously she was a Harrington doctoral fellow and teaching assistant at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. In the past, Madan has also been a research analyst at Brookings, and worked in the information technology industry. She has authored a number of publications on India’s foreign policy and has been cited by media outlets like the Associated Press, the Economist,  Financial Times,  New York Times, and Washington Post. Madan has also appeared on a number of news shows including BBC, CBS, Channel NewsAsia, CNBC, Fox News, NDTV, NPR, and PBS.

In addition to a PhD in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin, she has a Master’s degree in international relations from Yale University and a Bachelor’s degree with honors in history from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, India.