FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 15, 2003
Contact: Maura Keaney, 202/939-2372, mkeaney@carnegieendowment.org
Ashley J. Tellis, National Security Council Official, Joins Carnegie Endowment
Ashley J. Tellis, a leading policy researcher in international security and defense studies, joins the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on October 20, Jessica Mathews, president of the Endowment, announced today. Tellis will serve as a senior associate with the Global Policy Program. He will contribute to a range of Carnegie Endowment work related to nuclear weapons proliferation, Asian security, terrorism, and U.S. national security strategy.
"Ashley Tellis brings Carnegie’s strength in international security to a new level," Mathews said. "He joins Michael Swaine, Joseph Cirincione, Rose Gottemoeller, and George Perkovich to further build our understanding of global security issues, with particular emphasis on China and South Asia. We are extremely pleased that he is joining us."
Before his appointment at Carnegie, Tellis served in the U.S. Department of State as senior advisor to the ambassador at the Embassy of the United States in India and then briefly on the National Security Council staff as special assistant to the president and senior director, strategic planning and Southwest Asia. Prior to his government service, he was a senior policy analyst at RAND and professor of policy analysis at the RAND Graduate School.
His research interests focus on international relations theory, military strategy and proliferation issues, South Asian politics, and U.S.-Asian security relations. He has authored two books: India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture (RAND, 2001) and Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (with Michael Swaine, RAND, 2000). His academic publications have appeared in several edited volumes and journals including the Journal of Strategic Studies, Asian Survey, Orbis, Comparative Strategy, Naval War College Review, and Security Studies. RAND publications also include Measuring National Power in the Post-Industrial Age; Anticipating Ethnic Conflict; The United States and Asia: Toward a New U.S. Strategy and Force Posture; Limited Conflicts Under the Nuclear Umbrella: Indian and Pakistani Lessons from the Kargil Crisis; Military Expenditures and Economic Growth; Strategic Exposure: Proliferation Challenges Around the Mediterranean Basin; and Stability in South Asia.
He earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and holds an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago as well as B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Bombay.
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