Ajay Darshan Behera
Director, MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi
Prof. Ajay Darshan Behera is the Director of MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. Until recently, he served as the Coordinator of its Centre for Pakistan Studies. Previously, he held several academic and research positions, including Officiating Director of the Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies at the University of Jammu, Assistant Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi, and Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. He was awarded the Kodikara Fellowship by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo, in 1996. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.