Dhruva Jaishankar

Executive Director

 
 

Dhruva Jaishankar

HIGHLIGHTS

2016-2019: Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.

2012-2016: Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington DC

Dhruva Jaishankar is Executive Director of ORF America, which he helped establish in 2020. He is also the author of Vishwa Shastra: India and the World (Penguin India, 2024), an introduction to India's international relations. Jaishankar's research, analysis, and commentary on international relations; India's relations with the United States, Europe, and the Indo-Pacific; and defence and security policy have appeared in several books, policy reports, and publications including Foreign AffairsForeign Policy, and Survival. He currently writes a regular column for the Hindustan Times newspaper in India.

Mr. Jaishankar was previously a Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Prior to that, he was a Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington DC. From 2009 to 2012, he was program officer with the Asia Program at GMF. Before that, he worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington and as a news writer and reporter for CNN-IBN television in New Delhi. 

In 2015-2016, Jaishankar was a Visiting Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a Non-Resident Fellow with the Lowy Institute in Australia, a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Trilateral Commission, an IISS-SAIS Merrill Center Young Strategist, and a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group. He holds a B.A. in history and classics from Macalester College, and an M.A. in security studies from Georgetown University. 

 

vishwa shastra out now

Dhruva Jaishankar's book 'Vishwa Shastra: India and the World' was published by Penguin Random House India in December 2024.

History
A brief but comprehensive overview of India's interactions with the world, from ancient times to the present day.

National Strategy
A roadmap for India's present and future international policies, outlining 5 main objectives and 14 priorities.

Bibliography
A resource, listing over 250 books for further exploration.

 

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