about the center

Carnegie India, founded in 2016 and based in New Delhi, is part of a robust global network that includes over 170 scholars. The center focuses primarily on three interrelated topics: technology and society, political economy, and security studies. Led by Indian experts with decades of policy experience, Carnegie India engages with governments, policymakers, academics, students, industries, practitioners, and civil society to provide insightful and fresh analysis on India’s pressing challenges and its rising global role.

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Our Programs

Our scholars engage with governments, policymakers, academics, students, industries, practitioners, and civil society to provide insightful and fresh analysis on India’s pressing challenges and its rising global role.

Our Programs

Our scholars engage with governments, policymakers, academics, students, industries, practitioners, and civil society to provide insightful and fresh analysis on India’s pressing challenges and its rising global role.

Program

Political Economy

This program studies contemporary developments in India’s political economy, with a view towards understanding and informing India’s developmental choices. Scholars in the program analyze economic and regulatory policies, design and working of public institutions, interfaces between politics and the economy, and performance of key sectors of the economy such as finance and land.

Program

Political Economy

This program studies contemporary developments in India’s political economy, with a view towards understanding and informing India’s developmental choices. Scholars in the program analyze economic and regulatory policies, design and working of public institutions, interfaces between politics and the economy, and performance of key sectors of the economy such as finance and land.

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Security Studies

India’s evolving role in regional and global security is shaped by complex dynamics. Experts in the Security Studies Program examine India’s position in this world order through informed analyses of its foreign and security policies, focusing on the relationship with China, the securitization of borders, and the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific.

Program

Security Studies

India’s evolving role in regional and global security is shaped by complex dynamics. Experts in the Security Studies Program examine India’s position in this world order through informed analyses of its foreign and security policies, focusing on the relationship with China, the securitization of borders, and the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific.

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Technology and Society

This program addresses five key areas: data governance and privacy; strategic technologies including semiconductors and defense; emerging technologies like AI and biosafety; digital public infrastructure with a focus on rapid development and inter-state dialogue; and strategic partnerships such as the India-U.S. Initiative on Critical & Emerging Technology and the EU-India Trade and Technology Council.

Program

Technology and Society

This program addresses five key areas: data governance and privacy; strategic technologies including semiconductors and defense; emerging technologies like AI and biosafety; digital public infrastructure with a focus on rapid development and inter-state dialogue; and strategic partnerships such as the India-U.S. Initiative on Critical & Emerging Technology and the EU-India Trade and Technology Council.

We provide unbiased analysis to decisionmakers

Our scholars generate strategic ideas and independent analysis to help inform countries, institutions, and leaders as they take on the most difficult global problems.

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Global Technology Summit

The Global Technology Summit—Carnegie India’s annual flagship event, co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India—brings together industry experts, policymakers, scientists, and other stakeholders from all over the world to deliberate on the changing nature of technology and geopolitics.

The ninth edition of the Global Technology Summit, themed "Sambhavna," took place in New Delhi from April 10-12, 2025. For more details: https://globaltechnologysummit.com/

Interpreting India

Voices from India and around the globe to unpack how technology, the economy, and foreign policy impact India’s relationship with the world.

In the Media

Carnegie India’s scholars actively engage in policy discussions across various platforms to provide new perspectives on contemporary global issues.

In the Media

Carnegie India’s scholars actively engage in policy discussions across various platforms to provide new perspectives on contemporary global issues.

In The Media
in the media
India-U.S. Trade Deal is Likely by Quad Summit During Trump Visit: Ex-envoy

Washington sees India as key to sustaining its global leadership, and the two sides could seal a bilateral trade deal ahead of the Quad Summit, which President Trump is expected to attend in India.

In The Media
in the media
The U.S.-China Tech War and India's Strategic Options || The Gist

The escalating tech war between the U.S. and China is redrawing the global technology map—and India finds itself both exposed and empowered by the fallout.

StratNews Global
In The Media
in the media
At the Global Technology Summit, Realism Meets Imagination—and India Makes it Possible

Finding Sambhavna will not be easy in this time of rapidly changing geopolitics. But as the last eight editions of the GTS have proven to us, the possibilities are endless.

In The Media
in the media
Europe’s Asian Pivot: India and the Quest for Strategic Autonomy

Mark Leonard welcomes Rudra Chaudhuri, James Crabtree and Janka Oertel to unpack Europe’s relations with Asia in the age of Donald Trump.

European Council on Foreign Relations

We host events to unpack the most difficult global challenges

Carnegie’s regular series of global public events, both virtual and in person, bring together top experts to discuss and debate pressing threats to global security and provide solutions.

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Security Studies Seminar with Avtar Singh Bhasin
December 12, 2024
  • Avtar Singh Bhasin
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West Asia Today: Actors, Interests, and Prospects
November 26, 2024
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