Dr Uttam Kumar Sinha is a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library in New Delhi. He is also a Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), adjunct faculty at the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research, Banaras Hindu University and honorary Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies Sri Lanka, Colombo. At IDSA, he is the Managing Editor of Strategic Analysis published by Routledge.
A doctorate in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, his research areas include strategic and security issues, climate change, transboundary water issues and the Arctic region. He is actively engaged in Track-1.5 dialogue process and was India’s representative to the CSCAP Working Group on Water Resources Security.
Currently on the technical advisory board of the South Asia Water Governance Programme and in a policy advisory role to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, Dr Sinha was a visiting fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 2006, a Chevening ‘Gurukul’ Scholar at the London School of Economics in 2008; and a visitor at the Harvard Kennedy School on a Executive Leaders Programme in 2015.
He is the author of the book Riverine Neighbourhood: Hydro-politics in South Asia (Pentagon Press, 2016). Some of his recent edited volumes include: The Modi Doctrine: New Paradigms in India’s Foreign Policy (Wisdom Tree, 2016); Non-Traditional Security Challenges in Asia: Approaches and Responses (Routledge 2015), Emerging Strategic Trends in Asia (Pentagon Press, 2015) and Arctic: Commerce, Governance and Policy (Routledge, 2015).
