about Professor Gautam Sen
Presently:
Professor Emeritus - Management Institute Of Learning & Excellence, Pune.
Visiting Professor - Institute Of Social And Economic Change, Bangalore.
Adjunct Faculty - National Institute Of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.
Formerly:
Sawarkar Professor Defence & Strategic Studies(1981-2007)
Head Department of Defence & Strategic Studies(1981-2001)
Director, National Centre of International Security & Defence Analysis (2002-2007), at the University of Pune
Member Board of Trustees & Honorary Director General, Indian Institute of Education, PUNE ( 2006-2011)
UGC Visiting Professor, Gorakhpur University(2007-2008)
Adjunct Professor, University of Madras (2008-2009)
Adjunct Professor of Peace Studies, Gujarat Vidyapith( 2009-2010)
Adjunct Professor Goa University ( 2011-2012)
Visiting Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management,(2001-2010) GRIGGS University,USA,MBA Program At Spicer Memorial College(2009-2010)
CAREER RECORD:
Professor Gautam Sen (born 11 October 1942) was educated in Amritsar,
Punjab, India. He matriculated and did his Intermediate Science degree from the
Punjab University in 1957 and 1959 respectively. He was Commissioned in 2/3
Gorkha Regiment and served in the Indian Army and served from December 1962 to
June 1974. Was Instructor at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun(1968-71) and
General Staff Officer Grade II at the Indian Army Headquarters( 1972-74). He was
granted pre-mature retirement in June 1974, from the Indian Army.
ACADEMIC TRAINING AND AWARDS:
In June 1974, Professor Sen joined McGill University, Montreal, Canada as
a post graduate student for an MA degree in political science and read political
philosophy. He then went on to complete a masters degree in International
Relations(IR) as Peterson Fellow at the Norman Peterson School of International
Affairs, Carleton University Ottawa, In 1977, Professor Stephen P Cohen took him as
Charles E Merium Fellow to the University Of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA,
for PhD degree program in Political Science. Thereafter he was nominated as a Ford International Fellow in International Security and Soviet East European Studies to
hold the position as a Research Associate simultaneously at the Russian Research
Centre at Harvard University and Centre for International Studies at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Boston from 1979 to 1981.
NATIONAL ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL RECORD:
In September 1981, Professor Sen left his Doctoral Degree Program at the
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as he was invited by the University of
Pune to hold Sawarkar Chair Professor of Defence and Strategic Studies as a Full
Professor which he held till his retirement in October 2007. Sen was Head of the
Department of Defence and Strategic Studies(1981-2001) Simultaneously he held
other positions e.g. Director Post Graduate Studies and Research(1995-2003),
DirectorGeneral International Centre(1997-2004), DirectorBoard of Colleges
and University Development(2001-2004) a statutary position nominated by the
Vice Chancellor under the provision of the University Act for looking after the entire
gambit of academic planning and award of academic recognition to teachers for
research and teaching in more than 500 colleges and research institutions affiliated to
the University of Pune, Member Management Council, Senate and Academic
Council, University of Pune(2001-2004), Director National Centre of International
Security and Defence Analysis(NISDA, 2002-2007), Honorary Director General
Indian Institute of Education (IIE) (2006-2009), University Grants Commission
nominee as Member of Search Committee for selecting Vice Chancellor, in Indian
University Chairman of Committee to grant Deemed to be University Status to
Institutes of Higher Education, Member of Five Year Plan Review Committee for
various Universities, Chairman of Committee for accreditation of Institutes of
Higher education, Member of Standing Committees of the UGC, Member of High
Power Committee of the UGC to evaluate the Status of the Discipline of Defence and
Strategic Studies taught in Indian Universities, Member of UGC Task force on Five
Year Plans and Perspectives and many other membership of committees set up by
various bodies like the Indian Council for Social Science Research etc. Prof Sen has
been consulted by members of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence from time to
time. He has been a Consultant to the UN Commission on Global Governance. He
has been Member of various Universities selection committee to select academic
faculty. UGC Visiting Professor at various Universities in India from 2007 till date.
Member of the National Eligibility Testing of the UGC covering International
Relations and Strategic Studies. He has been the Member of the UGC Committee to
review the status of those Universities granted Special Assistance Programme in
Political Science for research and teaching. Professor Sen was invited by General N C
Vij, PVSM,UYSM, AVSM, Vice Chairman of the National Disaster Management
Authority(NDMA), Government of India, to conduct a Review of the NDMA.
Professor Sen has been a Recognized Research guide for PhD students since
1981and students have successfully completed their PhD and MPhil research under
his supervision. He has evaluated PhD theses of candidates from India and foreign
Universities.
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC RECORD:
Since 1981, Professor Sen has traveled extensively around the world as a
Member of Ford Foundation Review Committee (1982), British Council Visiting
Fellow(1986), Participated in the Meeting of Directors of Institutes of Strategic Studies set up by the International Institute of Strategic Studies(IISS), London (1986),
Fellow IISS(1986), Visiting Fellow of the USIS to lecture at Harvard, MIT, Hoover
Institute of War Revolution and Peace, The Pentagon, National Defence University,
University of Pittsburg, University of Illinois, Wisconsin University, Stanford
University, George Town University to name a few amongst the twenty one
institutions(October-December 1987), participated in Directors of Institutes Meeting
organized by IISS at Islamabad, Pakistan(May 1988), nominated as Fellow IISS,
London(1989) for the second time. Nominated as the first South Asian scholar to be
Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy(1992-
1993), Ministry of External affairs, Government of India, Visiting Academic to
lecture on Indias Nuclear and Defence Policy at various US Institutions, think tanks
viz. The State Department, US Institute of Peace, Henry L Stimson Centre, Woodrow
Wilson Centre, Council on Foreign Relations and various US Universities viz.
University of Pennsylvania, University Of Texas at Austin, Columbia University
amongst others(September October 1994
FUND RAISING AND INSTITUTION BUILDING:
While serving the University of Pune, Professor Sen has undertaken a series of
developmental activities to raise funds from international and national funding
agencies. His efforts have borne fruit to establish the Centre for European Studies
in collaboration and a MoU with the European University Institute, Florence and the
UGC. Similar MoUs have been executed with DRDO, ISRO now called
ISRO/DRDO-UoP Program for collaborative research in science and technology.
Established Chhatrapati Shivaji Chair Professorship and Air Power Chair
Professorship, B C Joshi Memorial Lecture and Sawarkar Memorial Lecture
series. Established the Resident Scholars Programme for the serving Indian Army
officers. In 2001 and the UGC granted National Centre of International Security
and Defence Analysis (NISDA) with an initial grant of Rupees Five Crores.
Professor Sen was nominated to be the first Founder Director of NISDA for five
years(2002-2007). This is the only Think Tank of its type sanctioned by the UGC to
any University in India after independence.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:
Professor Sen has over the past three decades been an active teacher and
researcher. He has taught courses in International Security, National Security, Peace
Studies and Conflict Resolution, Nuclear Strategy, and Research Methodology. He
has attended numerous international and national conferences, published innumerable
research articles in national and international journals, edited four books and
contributed chapters in books. He has also written widely in newspapers, commented
on weapon systems and indigenization of defence industries in private sector.
Recently Prof. Sen has undertaken to write on a book entitled The world in
Transition: The Age of Certainty.
PUBLICATIONS:
Book Published:
- Indias Security Consideration In Nuclear Age, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 1986.
- B C Joshi Memorial Lectures on National Security, (Ed),University of Pune Press, Pune, 2006.
- Conceptualizing Security of India in The 21st Century,(Ed), Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2006.
- Impediments to National Security,(Ed), NISDA Publication,Pune 2007.
- Indias Strategic Perspectives in the 21st Century: Maritime, Geo-Strategic and Mega-Death Issues(Ed), Publication Unit, Goa University, Taleigao, Goa, 2011
- Concepts And Issues of National Security, In Arya, D.K. & Sharma, R .C., Ed. Management Issues and Operational Planning For Indias Border, Scholars Publishing Forum New Delhi, 1991.
- European Security Issues, In Ahuja, Kanta, Humb Coppens and Herman van der Wusten, Ed. Regieme Transformation And Global Relaignment, Sage Publications, New Delhi/ Newbury Park/London, 1993.
- The Making of Indias Defence Policy In Two Volumes. Volume I Indias Defence Policy Quest For Policy : 1947-1973. Volume II Indias Defence Policy- Policy For Grandeur:1974-91.
- World In Transition: Age of Certainity?
- India in Global Strategic Calculus (Ed) NISDA Publication based On the Proceedings of the Third NISDA National Seminar
- The Future of Strategic Strategic Studies(Ed) based on the Proceedings of NISDA-CSA Conferences held at Channai and Pune.
- Bio Terrorism and Indis Maritime Strategy,(ED) Publication based on the Proceedings of the National Conference at the University of Goa December 2011