Chair
Shri Vijay Gokhale
Former Foreign Secretary (Government of India); Distinguished Professor, Symbiosis International (Deemed University)

About:
Vijay Gokhale is an esteemed diplomat and accomplished scholar. He has served as India's High Commissioner to Malaysia and Ambassador to Germany and China. He assumed the role of India’s Foreign Secretary thereafter. Currently, Mr. Gokhale is a Distinguished Professor at Symbiosis International in Pune, where he imparts his knowledge and expertise to the next generation of diplomats, and as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Carnegie India, further solidifying his influence in the field of foreign policy.

As an accomplished author, Mr. Gokhale has enriched the literature on international relations with several notable publications.

Lead Speaker
Prof. Amrita Narlikar
President, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, and Professor of International Relations, Hamburg University

About:
Professor Amrita Narlikar has served as the President of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) for almost a decade. She is also a Professor of International Relations at the University of Hamburg, and an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. She was previously a Reader in International Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, and a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford. Amrita recently co-edited How Not to Guide for International Relations, a centenary special issue of International Affairs (2022) and authored Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her most recent book is the co-authored, Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharat, to be released by Penguin Random House in November 2023.

Discussant
Prof. Amitabh Mattoo
Professor, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), Jawaharlal Nehru University; Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of Melbourne

About:
Professor Amitabh Mattoo is a Professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is Chair of the Centre of International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament Studies. He is concurrently Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Mattoo also serves as the President of the Indian Association of International Studies and serves on the Board of the Australia India Institute and on the Council of the Central University of Jammu and Kashmir.

Amitabh Mattoo is the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Jammu and was the youngest person appointed to that position in the history of independent India. Professor Mattoo has served as a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission for the Health and Well-Being of Young People.

Discussant
Col. (Retd.) P. K. Gautam
Honorary Distinguished Fellow at Centre for Military History and Conflict Studies (CMHCS), United Service Institution of India (USI)

About:
Colonel Pradeep Kumar Gautam (Retd) is a war veteran of 1971 (Bangladesh), a former Research Fellow at the IDSA and later a consultant to the project ‘Indigenous Historical Knowledge.’ He is the co-editor of the institute’s three volume series Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and His Vocabulary. He has written extensively on environmental security, non-traditional security, water, climate change, military affairs, and Tibet. He has authored chapters, articles and three monographs on Kautilya’s Arthashastra, one each on Kamandaka’s Nitishastra, The Kural and The Sukraniti (forthcoming).

He is an Honorary Distinguished Fellow at Centre for Military History and Conflict Studies (CMHCS), United Service Institution of India (USI) and held the Maharana Pratap Chair for 2022/23 to research on The Sukraniti.

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