Safeguarding India's Democracy & Civil Society: The China Threat | Lt Gen PR Shankar | Cleo Paskal

About the Speakers: Lt Gen P R Shankar is a retired Director General of Artillery. He has held many important command, staff and instructional appointments in the Army. He has vast operational experience having served in all kinds of terrain and operational situations which has confronted the Indian Army in the past four decades. Major 155mm Gun projects like the Dhanush, M777 ULH and K9 Vajra, Rocket and Missile projects related to Pinaka, Brahmos and Grad BM21, surveillance projects like Swati WLR and few ammunition projects came to fructification due to his relentless efforts. He gave great impetus to the modernization of Artillery through indigenization. He is now a Professor in the Aerospace Department of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Cleo Paskal is a non-resident senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies focusing on the Indo-Pacific region, in particular, the Pacific Islands and India.She has testified before the U.S. Congress, regularly lectures and moderates for seminars for the U.S. military, and has taught at defense colleges in the United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada, and Oman. From 2006 to 2022, she was an associate fellow at Chatham House, London, where, among other responsibilities, she was research lead on the multi-year futures project “Perspectives on Strategic Shifts in the Indo-Pacific 2019-2024.”
She is widely published in the academic and popular press. Currently she is the North America Special Correspondent for The Sunday Guardian (India) newspaper.
Session Host: Kalpana Pandey