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Sameer Lalwani joins Carnegie Endowment as senior fellow
Lalwani will focus on U.S.-India relations, defense technology and Indo-Pacific security.
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Ankita Baidya - Wed, 01, Jul 2026
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Sameer Lalwani has joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a senior fellow in its South Asia Program. / Stimson Centre
Sameer Lalwani, an Indian-origin scholar, has joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a senior fellow in its South Asia Program, according to a post on X by Milan Vaishnav, director of Carnegie's South Asia Program.
Vaishnav said Lalwani will lead the program's work on U.S.-India relations, military and technology competition, and Indo-Pacific security.
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According to Carnegie Endowment website, Lalwani is also a research affiliate with the MIT Security Studies Program and a contributing editor at War on the Rocks. His research focuses on military technology competition, deterrence dynamics, alliance politics and Indo-Pacific security. His work has appeared in journals including International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies and Survival, while his policy analysis has been published in Foreign Affairs and War on the Rocks.
Delighted that @splalwani joins @CarnegieSAsia today as a Senior Fellow. Sameer will develop our work on US-India relations, military & technology competition, and Indo-Pacific security. I couldn’t be happier to welcome him to the team https://t.co/PylCIxd7DR pic.twitter.com/EICJp4YcXr
— Milan Vaishnav (@MilanV) June 30, 2026
From 2022 to 2025, Lalwani was a senior expert at the United States Institute of Peace, where he led U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored work on the China-India battlespace and supported U.S.-India defense technology cooperation, including the India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X).
He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and regularly briefs the U.S. government, according to Carnegie.
Earlier in his career, Lalwani directed the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center. He was also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the RAND Corporation.
During his doctoral studies, he conducted field research in India and Pakistan and archival research in the United Kingdom. He also served as a visiting fellow at India's Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, according to his biography on the Stimson Center website.
Lalwani is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and has previously taught at George Washington University and MIT.
He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate in political science from MIT.
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