About our speaker, Tanvi Madan:

Tanvi Madan is a fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, and director of The India Project. Madan’s work explores Indian 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. Madan’s book Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations during the Cold War will be published later this year. 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. Madan has also previously been a research analyst at Brookings, and worked in the information technology industry. In addition to a Ph.D. 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. She has authored a number of publications on India's foreign policy, and been cited by media outlets such as the Associated Press, The Economist, Financial Times, The New York Times, and the The Washington Post. Madan has also appeared on a number of news shows, including the BBC, CBS, Channel NewsAsia, CNBC, Fox News, NDTV, NPR, and PBS.