Dr. Titli Basu is an Associate Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS) in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India. Her research interests include geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, with special focus on East Asia. Earlier she worked as a Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). In 2022, Dr. Basu was a US State Department IVLP Fellow on ‘Enhancing Regional Maritime Governance and Cooperation in the Quad’.
She was also a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute for Defence Studies (Ministry of Defence), Japan in 2017 , and a Japan Foundation Fellow at Institute for Social Science, University of Tokyo in 2010-11. Dr. Basu’s research work has been published in various international peer-reviewed journals, and her commentaries feature regularly in global forums.