Cordially invites you to participate in the
Launch
of the
Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA)
&
Inaugural Public Lecture
Given by
Dr. C. Raja Mohan
Strategic Affairs Editor
The Indian Express
On the theme:
“India and America in the Obama Era”
Key Note Address by
Professor Stephen P. Marks
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
Harvard University
Date: Friday, 1 October 2010
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Global Auditorium
PROGRAMME
3:30 pm - 3:35 pm: Welcoming Remarks
Professor C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
3:35 pm – 3:40 pm: Introductory Remarks
Dr. Sanjeev P. Sahni, Head, Education, Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL)
3:40 pm - 3:50 pm: Introducing the Vision of JSIA
Dr. Sreeram Sundar Chaulia, Vice Dean, Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA)
3:50 pm - 4:05 pm: Key Note Address and the Launch of JSIA
Professor Stephen P. Marks, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
4:05 pm - 4:30 pm: Inaugural Public Lecture of JSIA
Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Indian Express
4:30 pm - 4:50 pm: Discussion
4:50 pm – 4:55 pm: Concluding Remarks
Professor D. K. Srivastava, Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), JGU
4:55 pm – 5:00 pm: Vote of Thanks
Mr. Aman Shah, Registrar
Short Bio of Dr. C. Raja Mohan
Dr. C. Raja Mohan is currently the Strategic Affairs Editor of The Indian Express, New Delhi.
Earlier, Mr. Mohan was Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU) in New Delhi and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore. He
also served as the Diplomatic Editor and the Washington Correspondent of The Hindu. Mohan
has a master’s degree in Nuclear Physics and a Ph.D. in international relations. He was a
Research Associate at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, during 198392. Mohan was a member of the UN Inter-Governmental Expert Group on Peaceful Uses of
Outer Space, during 1991-92. He was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the U.S. Institute of
Peace, Washington DC, during 1992-93. He was a member of India’s National Security Advisory
Board during 1998-2000 and 2004-06. He led the Indian Chapter of the Pugwash Conferences
on Science and World Affairs during 1999-2006. Mr. Mohan was the Henry Alfred Kissinger
Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, Washington DC
during 2009-10. His recent books include Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India’s New
Foreign Policy (New York: Palgrave, 2004); Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States
and the Global Order (New Delhi: India Research Press, 2006); Power Realignments in Asia:
China, India and the United States (New Delhi: Sage, 2009) (Coedited with Alyssa Ayres).
Short Bio of Professor Stephen P. Marks
Professor Stephen P. Marks is the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human
Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he directs the Human Rights in
Development Program. He is also the Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human
Rights Studies at Harvard University. He is a Member of the Governing Body of O.P. Jindal
Global University. He holds academic degrees from Stanford University, the Universities of
Paris, Strasbourg, Besançon and Nice, France, as well as the University of Damascus, Syria. His
principal fields are international law, human rights, public health, international politics,
international organizations, development, peace and conflict. He has also held teaching
positions at Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Phnom Penh Faculty
of Law; Cardozo School of Law; the New School for Social Research; Rutgers University School
of Law, and City University of Hong Kong School of Law and University of Hong Kong Law
School. He spent 12 years in the service of the United Nations, working for UNESCO in Paris
and in various peacekeeping operations. He is currently chair of the UN High Level Task Force
on the Implementation of the Right to Development. He is the author of over 60 articles and
book chapters and editor or co-editor of and contributor to The Future of International Human
Rights (1999), Health and Human Rights: The Educational Challenge (2002); Perspectives in
Health and Human Rights (2005) and Development as a Human Rights (2006). His latest
publications relate to human reproductive cloning, universal jurisdiction, cultural rights,
human rights education, human rights in development, human rights and bioethics, and the
war on terrorism.