Dr. Avinash Godbole
Professor & Associate Dean, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University
He joined JGU as an Assistant Professor in February 2018. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs, and before this, he was a Research Assistant at IDSA. His doctoral thesis is on the Political Economy of China's Environment. He was a Visiting Fox Fellow at the Macmillan Center at Yale in 2007-08. His research interests are in the fields of Chinese Foreign Policy, Environmental Changes in China, Minorities in China, Domestic Politics in China, China's Asia strategy and India-China Relations. He has written extensively on these subjects in academic and media publications. He has been part of the India-China Think Tank Forum and has been involved in various other track 1.5 and track 2 events. He is also a Visiting Faculty at the Naval War College, Goa.