प्रोफेसर वरुण साहनी
सदस्य
Former Vice Chancellor, Goa University and Professor, International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
D.Phil. (University of Oxford)
Career:
- Professor, International Politics, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2003-); Associate Professor (1995-2003)
- Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu (2008-2012)
- Before 1995:
- Junior Research Fellow in Politics and Junior Dean, Lincoln College, Oxford (1989-1992)
- Resident Fellow, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi (1993-1994)
- Reader, Latin American Politics, Goa University (1994-1995)
Visiting Professor / Fellow:
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (1997)
- Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico City (1997-1999)
- National Defense University, Washington, DC (2003), under the Fulbright Military Academies Initiative)
- Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy, The Australian National University, Canberra (2008)
- National Defence College (NDC), New Delhi
- Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi
- Army War College, Mhow, MP
- Naval War College, Goa
Awards and Honours:
- VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences (2006): Indian Council of Social Science Research
- Personnalité d'Avenir" at the French Foreign Ministry (1995)
- Member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers) (1999-2002)
- Inlaks Scholar, New College, Oxford (1986-1989)
Committees / Boards / Juries:
- Jury Member, Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (2009-2011)
- Chairman, Programme Committee, Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi (2011-2018)
- Member, FIST Advisory Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2009-2015)
- Member, General Council, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bengaluru (2011-2014)
- Member, All India Board of Management Studies, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi (2013-2016)
Editor / Editorial Boards:
- South Asian Survey (SAGE), Editor (2003-2016)
- The Chinese Journal of International Politics (Oxford University Press) - Editorial board member (2006-)
- Studies in Asian Security (Stanford University Press) - International board member (2007-2011)
Research Contributions:
- Published over 102 research articles and book chapters, participated in over 220 academic conferences (90 outside India)
- Co-author, Technology Vision 2035 and Educational Technologies Roadmap