The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Directors’ Lunch with Jaswant Singh, Leader of the Opposition in the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and Senior Fellow of the Belfer Center, on October 23rd, 2006, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
In the BJP-led governments of 1996 and 1998-2004, Singh held charge of six ministries of the Government of India, including External Affairs, Defence and Finance. An authority on Indian foreign policy and national security, he is amongst the most respected names in Indian public life, and in the world of diplomacy. He currently serves his seventh term in Parliament.
Singh is given credit for dexterously steering India out of the turbulent diplomatic seas encountered in the aftermath of the nuclear tests of May 1998. He was commissioned in the Indian Army when barely nineteen.
In addition to being a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center and the Asia Center, Jaswant Singh is a Visiting Professor at Oxford University, and an Honorary Professor at Warwick University. 'How do you manage?', if asked, he replies 'Time always expands to meet the calls made upon it'. He is an ardent bibliophile, an antiquarian, and a prolific writer, completing over seven books, including one about to be published in the United States later this year.
