Dinakar Peri is a fellow in the Security Studies program at Carnegie India.

Earlier, he was a journalist with The Hindu newspaper covering defense and strategic affairs for almost 11 years. He is an alumnus of the U.K. Foreign Office’s Chevening South Asia Journalism Program and the U.S. State Department’s International Visiting Leadership Program. Prior to journalism, he was an associate fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), an autonomous think tank of the Indian Army and worked on special projects with the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), a tri-service think tank.

Dinakar holds two Masters degrees - MSc in Biotechnology and MBA in Business Sustainability. In between the two degrees, he was a biology researcher for four years and worked at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad and as junior research fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He made a transition from biology to policy research due to his long-held interest and passion for the field. He regularly appears on television and delivers lectures as an expert on defense and strategic affairs issues.