Speaker
Dr Tara Kartha
Director of Research and Academics

Dr Tara Kartha is Director (R&A) at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies. She works on the neighbourhood and great power politics, and also is involved in CLAWS reaching out to other institutions. Previously she was Senior Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. She served at the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Government of India during the tenure of 5 National Security Advisors. In government, her focus was primarily on Afghanistan and Pakistan, terrorism in the neighbourhood, and a watching brief on the outflow of this on radicalisation within India.