V. Suryanarayan

Prof. V. Suryanarayan is one of India?s leading specialists in South and Southeast Asian Studies. For more than twenty years he was associated with the Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Madras, first as the Founding Director and later as Senior Professor. He was Visiting Professor in several Universities in United States and in India. Prof. Suryanarayan was a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for one term. He is currently a member of the adjunct faculty in the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. He is actively associated with two think tanks in Chennai?Center for Asia Studies and Chennai Centre for China Studies. Prof. Suryanarayan has written extensively on contemporary South and Southeast Asia.