hi INDiA Copyright 2022-2050
WASHINGTON, DC — The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has announced that Senior Fellow Milan Vaishnav will serve as the director of the South Asia Program in Washington.
“This is a critical moment in the internal and external trajectory of South Asia,” said the Indian American in a statement on June 28.
“I am excited about what my colleagues and I can accomplish together and honored to take on this new role at an institution I care so much about.”
Vaishnav is the author of the acclaimed new book, “When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics,” published by Yale University Press and HarperCollins India, as well as the co-editor of the recent “Rethinking Public Institutions in India” published by Oxford University Press.
The new director is an expert on India’s political economy and examines issues such as corruption, ethnic politics, governance and state capacity, election finance and voter behavior, according to a Carnegie Endowment news release.
Vaishnav joined Carnegie in 2012 after serving as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Global Development. He holds a doctorate and master’s, both in political science, from Columbia University, as well as his bachelor’s in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania.