The Hoover Institution in DC hosts Ideas Uncorked: One Year After Pahalgam on Wednesday, June 3 from 5:00–7:00 pm ET. The event will feature Šumit Ganguly, Jonah Blank, and Lisa Curis.
FEATURING
Šumit Ganguly, Senior Fellow and Director of Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations, Hoover Institution
Jonah Blank, Senior Political Scientist (adj.), RAND | Senior Research Fellow (nonresident), National University of Singapore
Lisa Curis, Senior Fellow and Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
ABOUT
Šumit Ganguly is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of its Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations. He is also the Rabindranath Tagore Professor in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Emeritus, at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he served as distinguished professor and professor of political science and directed programs on India studies and on American and global security. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, Hunter College, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and James Madison College of Michigan State University. He has also taught at Columbia University, Sciences Po (Paris, France), the US Army War College, the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Northwestern University, and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He serves on the board of directors of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Dr Jonah Blank is a political scientist and anthropologist who is currently based in Singapore, with one foot in the world of academia and the other in that of public policy. From 1999-2011 he served as Policy Director for South and Southeast Asia of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He began his professional life as Finance Editor of the Asahi Evening News in Tokyo, earned his doctorate in social anthropology and has focused his career on the broad intersection of human capital, public policy, international security, economy and social development.
Lisa Curis is a senior fellow and director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She is a foreign policy and national security expert with over 20 years of service in the U.S. government, including at the National Security Council (NSC), CIA, State Department, and Capitol Hill. Her work has centered on U.S. policy toward the Indo-Pacific and South Asia, with a particular focus on U.S.-India strategic relations; Quad (United States, Australia, India, and Japan) cooperation; counterterrorism strategy in South and Central Asia; and China’s role in the region. Curtis served as deputy assistant to the president and NSC senior director for South and Central Asia from 2017 to 2021.
