Rudra Chaudhuri

Rudra Chaudhuri is a Vice President. His research and policy work focuses on the important role of technology and innovation in diplomacy, statecraft, development and business. He works closely with India’s growing innovation ecosystem. His research also focuses on the diplomatic history of South Asia and contemporary security issues.

He is the author of Forged in Crisis: India and the United States Since 1947 (published in the UK by Hurst in 2013 and in the United States and South Asia by Oxford University Press and Harper Collins, respectively, in 2014). He is the editor of War and Peace in Contemporary India (published by Routledge in 2022) and co-editor of India and the Sovereignty Principle (published by Routledge in 2025)

His research has been published in scholarly journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The International History Review, Diplomacy & Statecraft, the Journal of Strategic Studies, International Affairs, RUSI Journal, India Review, and Defense Studies, along with other academic and policy-focused journals. He has authored several Working Papers for Carnegie India and occasionally writes for newspapers and other media outlets.

He served as the Director of Carnegie India from 2018 till January 2026. In this time, he co-led the Global Technology Summit, co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He was a lecturer and a senior lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London from 2009 to 2019. In 2012, he established the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office’s (FCDO) Diplomatic Academy for South Asia at King’s College London. He served as its founding director from 2013 to 2022. He previously taught at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College between 2007 and 2009. He holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. In February 2024, he was nominated as a visiting senior research fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He also serves on the Asia Advisory Board of La Trobe University in Australia.