Monish Tourangbam

Dr. Monish Tourangbam is a New Delhi based Strategic Analyst and the Honorary Director of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies (KIIPS). Formerly, he was an Associate Professor at the AIIS, Amity University, Noida and a Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, MAHE, Manipal. He was also an Associate Fellow at the ORF, New Delhi; the Associate Editor of the IFAJ of the Association of Indian Diplomats; a Visiting Faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and a SAV Visiting Fellow at the Stimson Center, Washington D.C. He was part of an India-Bangladesh Strategic Dialogue (2023), India-China Track II Dialogue (2019); an International Observer of the Russian Presidential Election (2018); an Indian delegate at a BRICS Exchange Program (2017) organized by the Chinese Peoples’ Association for Peace and Disarmament, Beijing. He has participated in a number of conferences, including Asia Foundation’s Conference on ‘Asia’s Views on America’s Role in Asia’ and a Track II Dialogue on “Planning for the Worst: Nuclear Effect and Disaster Management in South Asia” organized by the Stimson Center in collaboration with the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo. He holds an M.Phil and Ph.D from the School of International Studies, JNU. He is a foreign affairs columnist for the India Times and a regular author at the Institute of South Asian Studies (National University of Singapore), Institute for Security & Development Policy (Sweden) and the Asian Confluence (Shillong).