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C. Raja Mohan, a highly regarded foreign policy strategist from India and founding director of Carnegie India, was last week named the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ inaugural Marshall M. Bouton Asia Fellow.
Given Asia’s increasing global influence and reach, including in Chicago, the council established the fellowship to explore the region’s economic and political development.
Mohan will visit Chicago May 9-13 and deliver the council’s first Marshall M. Bouton Lecture: “American Retrenchment: Implications for India and Asia.” Mohan will also meet with civic leaders, corporate executives and local scholars to build relationships and share knowledge about critical issues facing Asia and the United States, the council announced May 3.
“America’s future is increasingly linked to Asia’s, and Dr. Mohan has a unique vantage point from which to assess the importance of this relationship,” said Ambassador Ivo H. Daalder, president of the Council on Global Affairs. “It is critical that we understand what drives Asia and how we can learn from each other in an increasingly interconnected world.”
Mohan’s visit marks the beginning of the prestigious fellowship, which the council’s board of directors established in recognition of Marshall M. Bouton, president of the Council from 2001 to 2013.
It is awarded to a prominent scholar, former senior policymaker or public intellectual known for contributions to Asia’s economic and political development or international relations who is invited to spend one week as a visiting fellow at the council.
In addition to his position at Carnegie India, which opened in April 2016 as the sixth international center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Mohan is a visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore and a columnist on foreign affairs for the Indian Express. He was previously a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board and was a nonresident senior associate with Carnegie before he became director of Carnegie India.
From 2009 to 2010, Mohan was the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in foreign policy and international relations at the Library of Congress. He has been a professor of South Asian studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
The Bouton Asia Fellowship adds to the council’s growing efforts to engage promising leaders from around the world to visit Chicago and exchange ideas with city officials, scholars and corporate leaders.
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