CFR Welcomes Sadanand Dhume as Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia 

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome  Sadanand Dhume   to the David Rockefeller Studies Program , CFR’s think tank, as a senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia. His research will focus on the region’s political economy and foreign policy.   Mr. Dhume is also the author of the biweekly East Is East column in the  Wall Street Journal  on South Asia, focusing on the region’s politics, economics, and foreign policy. Most recently, he served as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the  Far Eastern Economic Review  and the  Wall Street Journal Asia  in India and Indonesia.   “I am pleased to welcome Sadanand to our Studies Program,” said CFR Senior Vice President  Shannon K. O’Neil . “Sadanand’s distinctive experience as a reporter and scholar covering South Asia will provide integral insight into this important and dynamic region and implications for U.S. foreign policy there.”   Mr. Dhume is the author of  My Friend the Fanatic: Travels With a Radical Islamist  and a forthcoming book,  Tinderbox: The Unpredictable Rise and Uncertain Future of Modern India . His work has appeared in  Foreign Affairs ,  Foreign Policy , the  National Interest , the  National Review , and   the  Wilson Quarterly , among others. He has appeared on Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, and numerous Indian TV channels.  Mr. Dhume holds a BA in sociology from the University of Delhi, an MS in journalism from Columbia Journalism School, and an MPA from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.