Dr. Bhaskar Balakrishnan
Dr. Bhaskar Balakrishnan
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Educated at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, he obtained MS Ph.D in Theoretical Physics from Stonybrook University, New York, USA, 1972. An Indian diplomat for 33 years from 1974, Dr. Balakrishnan set up and headed the Investment & Technology Promotion Division of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Now an adjunct faculty member at JSS University, Mysore and a visiting faculty at the Foreign Service Institute of the Ministry of External Affairs since 2008. He is a Fellow leading a programme on Science Diplomacy at the Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS). His book “Technology and International Relations: Challenges for the 21st Century” was published in 2017.