Lincoln alumn Dr. Rahul Roy-Chaudhury is the Senior Fellow for South and Central Asian Defence, Strategy and Diplomacy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He researches and publishes on India’s domestic politics as well as its foreign and security policies; India-Pakistan relations; Afghanistan and Central Asia; UK-India relations and the Indian navy and the Indian Ocean. Roy-Chaudhury gives select policy-relevant talks and briefings, involving top South Asian government and security officials, focus on regional stability, and taking place annually in Muscat, Bahrain, New Delhi, Islamabad, Istanbul, Singapore and London. He is also author of Sea Power and Indian Security (1995) and India’s Maritime Security (2000). Roy-Chaudhury also lectures at the Royal College of Defence Studies and Oxford University. Earlier in his career, he served in the National Security Council Secretariat in the Prime Minister’s Office, India. He had also worked at the Institute for Defence Studies in New Delhi. Roy-Chaudhury was educated at the American University in Cairo and the Universities of East Anglia and Oxford.
Roel Konijnendijk is Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK. He works on the structural features of Greek warfare and its treatment in modern scholarship, focusing on Classical Greek military thought as wella s the encounters between the Greek and Persian military systems. He is author of Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History (2023) and Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History (2018). Konijnendijk completed his BA and Research MA in History at the Leiden University in the Netherlands before pursuing his doctorate at University College London in Greek medieval warfare.
Abhishek Saha is a PhD candidate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. His research, funded by the ESRC, focuses on questions of citizenship in India. As a journalist, Saha covered northeastern India for The Indian Express (2018-21) and Kashmir for the Hindustan Times (2015-18). Born and raised in Assam, India, Saha graduated as a civil engineer from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, before switching to journalism. He studied Print Journalism at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai; and Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. Saha won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for his coverage of the Kashmir unrest of 2016. His debut book No Land’s People, a reportage-driven account of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, was published by HarperCollins in 2021. The book was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2022.
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