Dr. Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, heads its programme on nuclear issues. She is also a Senior Research Advisor at Asia Pacific Leadership Network. Recipient of the K Subrahmanyam Award (2014), Commendation by Chief of Air Staff (2020), and Commendation by Commander- in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command (2022). Since receiving her doctorate in 1997, she has worked on nuclear energy, strategy, arms control risk reduction & disarmament. She is the author/co-author/ editor of nine books and over 130 papers.

Sethi lectures at the National Defence College and other establishments of the Indian Armed Forces, Police, Foreign Services, and Universities. In 2012, she was a Member of the Indian Prime Minister’s Informal Group on Disarmament. In 2021, she was invited to present her views before the UN Secretary- General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. She is a member of the International Group of Eminent Persons selected by Japan’s PM to explore possibilities of nuclear elimination.

She is Co-chair of Women in Nuclear–India and of the Working Group on Reducing Pathways
to Nuclear Use at Belfer Center, Harvard University, and a Board Member of the Missile Dialogue Initiative, IISS.