Tanvi Madan

Tanvi Madan is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program, and director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution. Her work explores India’s role in the world and its foreign policy, focusing particularly on India's relations with China and the United States, and its approach in the Indo-Pacific. Madan is the author of Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations During the Cold War (Brookings Institution Press, 2020). Her ongoing work includes a book project on the recent past, present and future of the China-India-US triangle, and a monograph on India’s foreign policy diversification strategy. Madan is a member of the editorial board of Asia Policy, a contributing editor at War on the Rocks, and a member of the Australian National University’s National Security College’s Futures Council. She has a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in international relations from Yale University, and a B.A. (Hons.) in history from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.