Speaker Profile: Madhu Bhalla

Professor Madhu Bhalla has an MA and PhD from Queen’s University, Canada. She is currently teaching at the Department of East Asian Studies, Delhi University. Before joining Delhi University in 2005, she taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Queen’s University, Canada, Trent University, Canada. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of Chinese security and foreign policy, the political economy of China, United States’ foreign policy and International Relations theory. She has published over twenty scholarly papers in these areas and contributed several book chapters to edited volumes and has a book in press on China’s foreign economic policy. She is currently working on a project on the prospects and challenges for co-operative security between India and China.

Professor Bhalla has held visiting fellowships at the Fudan University, Shanghai and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Sichuan at Chengdu. She has also been a member of the governing body of Laxmi Bai College, Delhi University, and is a resource person for strategic and policy think tanks and media organisations in Delhi. She is currently a member of the Executive Council of the IDSA.