Shivshankar MENON is currently visiting professor at Ashoka University, India, and Chair of the Ashoka Centre for China Studies. He is also a Distinguished Fellow with the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, New Delhi. He was National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, 2010-2014; Foreign Secretary of India, 2006-2009; and has served as the Indian Ambassador or High Commissioner to China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Israel. He has published “Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy” (2016), “India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present” (2021), and “India in a World Adrift” (2025).