Jaideep Saikia is a terrorism and security analyst and an expert on North East India. Saikia has published over two dozen academic papers in various national and international security journals and has written or edited eight book on security, counter-terrorism and strategy, including Terror Sans Frontiers: Islamist Militancy in North East India and Terrorism: Pattern of Internationalization. An alumni of the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, the last of which was an Ford Fellow. Saikia has also served the Government of India and Assam in security advisorial capacities and also a member of the Indian delegation for Track II Dialogue with Bangladesh in 2007.