Kanti Bajpai is Visiting Senior Fellow, CSEP, Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations, Ashoka University and Emeritus Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Before this, he held academic positions at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2011-25), Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University (2009-2010), the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (1994-2003), and the Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda (1989-1991). He was Headmaster, The Doon School, India (2003-2009).

Dr Bajpai has also held various visiting positions – at Wesleyan University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies in New Delhi, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace at Notre Dame University, the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in Canberra. In 2010, he was Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi.

His main areas of research are Indian foreign policy and national security, South Asia, Asian international and strategic thought, and international security.

Most recently, Dr Bajpai published How Realist is India’s National Security Policy (Routledge, 2023), India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends (Juggernaut, 2021), The Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020, with Manjari Chatterjee Miller and Selina Ho), and India, the West, and International Order (2019, with Siddharth Mallavarapu). He is currently working on a book on India’s security.