Instructor Bio

Seema Gahlaut

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Seema Gahlaut is the Director for South Asia Program at the Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia. She also serves as an Instructor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University, where she has taught courses in American Government & Politics, Political Economy and National Security in Southern Asia, and Politics of Trade & Security Policy.

She is in-charge of India and Pakistan sections of the Center’s Global Evaluations of Export Control Development project. She is also working on two other projects. One looks at how the international nonproliferation community can engage India and Pakistan on issues of technology export controls and nuclear security. Another assesses the effectiveness of the four informal technology control agreements among supplier states that have been trying to regulate trade of sensitive goods.

Dr. Gahlaut has a B. A. (Honors) degree from Delhi University, M. A. and M. Phil. degrees from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

Dr. Gahlaut has lectured on issues of international and South Asian security, nonproliferation, and U.S.-India relations at various forums in the United States and India, including the National Defense College and the United Services Institution of India (New Delhi). She often briefs government officials in India, the United States, and elsewhere in East Asia on export control issues. She has appeared on CNN TalkBack Live and often contributes to Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, BBC (Hindi Service), and Market Place as an expert, and has been quoted in the New York Times, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Times of India, and Aerospace Daily.