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U.S. Assistant Secretary S. Paul Kapur visits Delhi again to discuss U.S.-India partnership
Speaking at the India-US Forum on June 19, hosted by the Ananta Aspen Centre, the Indian American bureaucrat shared his observations and aspirations for the future of the Indo-US strategic partnership.
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Ishani Duttagupta - Mon, 22, Jun 2026
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Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs / Wikimedia commons
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs S. Paul Kapur visited New Delhi last weekend for a series of high-level engagements, marking his second official visit to India in the past three months.
Speaking at the India-US Forum on June 19, hosted by the Ananta Aspen Centre, the Indian American bureaucrat shared his observations and aspirations for the future of the Indo-US strategic partnership. The forum, which also featured External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor, facilitated a robust exchange on the various facets of Indo-US cooperation and highlighted the value of sustained dialogue in navigating a complex global landscape.
Earlier, Assistant Secretary Kapur met representatives from Boeing, Lockheed Martin and GE Aerospace to discuss commercial opportunities in US-India civil aviation. “American innovation and private sector participation are making the US, India and the region more prosperous and secure,” Kapur said after the meeting. He also met the leadership and members of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum and AMCHAM India during the visit to discuss opportunities for US trade and business relationships, including those in critical minerals and energy, to establish secure and trusted supply chains for America.
USISPF had convened a closed-door engagement with Assistant Secretary Kapur and senior industry leaders from India’s critical minerals sector. The conversation underscored the growing strategic importance of critical minerals in the US-India partnership. It explored opportunities to deepen cooperation through enhanced investment, supply chain integration and long-term commercial collaboration across the critical minerals value chain, according to a statement from USISPF.
An academic and scholar before he took up the political appointment in the Donald Trump administration, Kapur is of Indian origin and was born in Delhi. His father is Indian and his mother is American. Earlier, he was a professor at the United States Naval Postgraduate School, where he taught in the Department of National Security Affairs.
Kapur has previously served on the US State Department’s Policy Planning Staff from 2020 to 2021, has been a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and taught at Claremont McKenna College. At his Senate confirmation hearings for his current assignment, he noted that his career felt like it had “come full circle” by bringing him back to his birthplace, in acknowledgment of his Indian American background.
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