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Press Release: Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis To Advise Under Secretary Burns on US-Indian Relations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 18, 2006
CONTACT: Jennifer Linker, +1 202/939-2372, jlinker@CarnegieEndowment.org
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announces that Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis is taking a two-month leave of absence so that he can serve as senior advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, R. Nicholas Burns, in support of various State Department activities relating to U.S.-Indian relations. His temporary leave is effective immediately.
Carnegie President Jessica T. Mathews asserted her support for the interim assignment, “The Carnegie Endowment recognizes the great importance of President Bush’s visit to South Asia and U.S. relations with India and Pakistan, so we are glad to contribute to this end by making Ashley J. Tellis’ great talents available to the administration.”
Tellis served previously on the National Security Council staff as Senior Director for Strategic Planning and Southwest Asia, and as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to India at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
Carnegie will continue to publish and research South Asia issues with experts George Perkovich, expert on India, Iran, Pakistan, and nonproliferation; Husain Haqqani, expert on Islam, South Asia, and Pakistan; and Frederic Grare, expert on Islam, Pakistan, and South Asia.
For more information visit: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/southasia
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