Speaker
Manpreet SETHI
Affliation
Center for Air Power Studies, India
Title
Senior Fellow
Session

Biography

Dr Manpreet Sethi is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, where she leads the project on nuclear security. She is an expert on the entire range of nuclear issues, having published over 80 papers in reputed academic journals. Over the last 18 years, she has been researching and writing on subjects related to nuclear energy, strategy, non-proliferation, disarmament, arms and export control,s and BMD.
Sethi is author of books Code of Conduct for Outer Space: Strategy for India (2015), Nuclear Strategy: India’s March towards Credible Deterrence (2009) and Argentina’s Nuclear Policy (1999); co-author of India's Sentinel (2014) and Nuclear Deterrence and Diplomacy (2004) and editor of Towards a Nuclear Weapons Free World (2009), Global Nuclear Challenges (2009) and Nuclear Power: In the Wake of Fukushima (2012).
Her works include Code of Conduct for Outer Space: Strategy for India (2015), Nuclear Strategy: India’s March towards Credible Deterrence (2009), and Argentina’s Nuclear Policy (1999).
She has also co-edited India’s Sentinel (2014), Nuclear Deterrence and Diplomacy (2004), Towards a Nuclear Weapons-Free World (2009), Global Nuclear Challenges (2009), and Nuclear Power: In the Wake of Fukushima (2012).
She lectures regularly at leading establishments of the Indian Armed Forces, Police, and Foreign Services. Member of PM’s Informal Group on Disarmament in 2012, she has also been part of the country’s Track II initiatives. She has been a member of the Executive Board of the Indian Pugwash Society and is a Consultant with the global Nuclear Abolition Forum and Asia Pacific Leadership Network.
She is a recipient of the prestigious K Subrahmanyam award, a national honour conferred by IDSA for excellence in strategic and security studies.