Time: 16:00-18:00, May 30th, 2013
Location: Room 609, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Speaker: E. Sridharan, the Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI)
Moderator: Xue Lan, Dean and Professor of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Director of CIDEG
Language: English
Organizers: Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance,（CIDEG）,Tsinghua Universtiy
Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy (BTC)
Brief Introduction：
Professor Sridharan will outline the evolution of India's foreign and economic policy in the post-Cold War and post-9/11 periods, and trace the emergence and evolution of India's foreign assistance policy, particularly since 2004-05 under the present United Progressive Alliance government. The chief characteristics, institutional framework and the driving forces of India’s foreign aid policy will be identified in the presentation.
Bio of Speaker:
E. Sridharan is the Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), (in New Delhi). He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in l989, and was a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 1989-1997. He has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics, the Institute for Developing Economies, Tokyo, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore and the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania.
He is a political scientist with research interests in the comparative politics and political economy of development including party systems, coalition politics and political finance, and international relations theory and conflict resolution in South Asia, in all of which areas he has published and/or is currently directing projects. He is the author of The Political Economy of Industrial Promotion: Indian, Brazilian and Korean Electronics in Comparative Perspective 1969-1994 (Praeger, 1996), etc.
He has published fifty-eight journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, and lectured and made conference presentations extensively in India and abroad.
