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.