Venue: Room 105, IDSA

Biodata: Prof Baladas Ghoshal

Baladas Ghoshal, currently Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and Visiting Professor, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, is a former Professor of Southeast Asia and South-West Pacific Studies and Chairman of the Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Professor Ghoshal is a doyen of Indonesian studies in India. He was a Visiting Professor of International Relations first at the International Christian University , Tokyo and then at Nagoya City University , Professor Ghoshal has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990-91) National University of Malaysia (1998-1999), University of Malaya (2000) and the Universiti Utara Malaysia (2002-2003). He has held Senior Fulbright Fellowships at the Cornell and Rutgers Universities (1983-84); Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , Singapore (1985-86); Ford-ACDIS Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong (Sept.-Oct.2003).