BIOGRAPHY

Presently: distinguished visiting fellow , Centre For Land Warfare Studies(CLAWS), Delhi and Editor-in-Chief CLAWS Journal ADJUNCT PROFESSOR: National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore VISITING PROFESSOR, Perspective Policy Foundation (PPF), New Delhi FOUNDER MEMBER Centre For Advance Strategic Studies, Pune Formerly: Sawarkar Professor Defence & Strategic Studies(1981-2007) Head Department of Defence & Strategic Studies(1981-2001) Director, National Centre of International Security & Defence Analysis (2002-2007), at the University of Pune Member Board of Trustees & Honorary Director General, Indian Institute of Education, PUNE (2006-2011) Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee Chair of Excellence (2018-19).Professor Sen joined McGill University, Montreal, Canada as a post graduate student for an MA degree in political science and read political philosophy. He then went on to complete a Master’s degree in IR as Peterson Fellow at the Norman Peterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University Ottawa. In 1977, Joined as Charles E Merium Fellow at the University Of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, for PhD degree program in Political Science. Member of Standing Committees of the UGC, Member of High Power Committee of the UGC to evaluate the Status of the Discipline of Defence and Strategic Studies taught in Indian Universities, Member of UGC Task force on Five Year Plans and Perspectives and many other memberships of committees set up by various bodies like the Indian Council for Social Science Research etc. Prof Sen has been consulted by members of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence from time to time.