Shivshankar Menon is currently a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, India; Distinguished Fellow of The Brookings Institution, Washington DC; Chairman, Advi-sory Board, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi; Member, Board of Trustees, International Crisis Group; and, a Distinguished Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute, New York.

He was previously National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, Jan 2010-May 2014; Foreign Secretary of India, October 2006-July 2009; and has served as the Indian Ambassador/High Commissioner to China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Israel.

In 2016 he published “Choices; Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy“ (Brookings & Penguin Random House, 2016).

He has been a Fisher Family Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2015 and Richard Wilhelm Fellow at MIT in 2015. He was chosen one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010.