Chirayu Thakkar is the founding CEO of Centre for Strategic Affairs, a New Delhi-based geopolitics think tank. Previously, he was Assistant Private Secretary to the Vice President of India and a Visiting Fellow with the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations, jointly awarded by the National University of Singapore and King’s College London. He is editor of two books, On China (with Amb. Vijay Gokhale) and India and the UN (with Harsh V. Pant). He comments regularly on international politics and security in print and electronic media.