Visiting Research Professor, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS). Former Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to that, he was a professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board and served as the diplomatic editor and Washington correspondent for the national daily The Hindu. Mohan was the founding director of Carnegie India, a Delhi-based research centre. He holds a PhD in International Relations (Strategic Studies and Arms Control) from the JNU.