Mr. Jaishankar is Program Officer with the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC. He is also a columnist for the Indian Express newspaper. Previously, he served as Senior Research Assistant with the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution, as a news writer and international news correspondent with CNN-IBN television in New Delhi, and as Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group. He received a B.A. in history and classics from Macalester College and an M.A. in security studies from Georgetown University. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.