Dr. Harinder Sekhon
Senior Fellow

Joined ORF
September 2004

Expertise
Indo-US Relations, International Terrorism, India’s Internal Security Concerns, ISI’s anti-India Activities.

Background
Dr. Harinder Sekhon did graduation in History Honours from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi and PhD on the American Historiography of Modern India from Punjab University, Chandigarh. She has over two decades of research, writing and teaching experience on various aspects of Indo-US relations, US policy and strategy in Asia. Before joining ORF, Dr. Sekhon was with the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India. The job entailed data analysis and preparing assessments on strategic issues for policy implementation by the Government of India. She has been a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre of Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and before that was senior lecturer in History at Punjab University, Chandigarh. She has presented papers at several conferences and writes frequently for academic journals and various newspapers on her area of study. Dr. Sekhon is the author of Five Decades of Indo-US Relations: Strategic and Intellectual published by UBS Publishers, New Delhi in 2002 and "India and the United States: Breakthroughs, Prospects and Challenges Ahead" published by Macmillan India in 2008.

Presently
She is working on a project: US South Asia Policy: Implications for India.

E-mail ID: harinders@orfonline.org