Mr. Amit Dasgupta AM, IFS, (Retd.)

A former Indian Foreign Service (IFS) diplomat (since 1979), he is a Distinguished Fellow of the Australia-India Institute of CUTS International, and a Senior Fellow at the Society for Policy Studies. He was appointed the Inaugural India Country Director for the University of New South Wales, Sydney in July 2016. In July 2020 he was appointed Strategic Advisor for the University on its India engagement programme, which is among its flagship outreach activities. He is a Director on the Board of UNSW Global India Private Limited. Prior to that and following his retirement from the Indian Foreign Service, he was appointed the first Head of the Mumbai Campus of the SP Jain School of Global Management. He has written for academic journals, civil society magazines, and newspapers on matters of foreign and security policy.