Ankit Panda

Mr. Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. An expert on the Asia-Pacific region, his research interests range nuclear strategy, arms control, missile defense, nonproliferation, emerging technologies, and U.S. extended deterrence. He is the author of Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea (Hurst Publishers/Oxford University Press, 2020). A widely published writer, Panda’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Diplomat, The Atlantic, The New Republic, South China Morning Post, War on the Rocks, POLITICO, and The National Interest. Panda has also published in scholarly journals, including Survival, the Washington Quarterly, and India Review, and has contributed to the IISS Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment and Strategic Survey. He is editor-at-large at The Diplomat, where he hosts the Asia Geopolitics podcast, and a contributing editor at War on the Rocks.