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S. Chandrashekar is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru. He retired as a Professor in the Corporate Strategy Area at IIM Bangalore in 2013.
Prior to this he had spent more than 20 years working at ISRO. His work there covered all parts of the programme that included satellites, rockets and space applications.
At ISRO, he also dealt with activities related to international co-operation that included all major powers as well as the United Nations Space Committee.
His monograph, Space, War and Security: A Strategy for India (NIAS 2015) that outlines a space strategy for India has been translated into Chinese. His book China’s Space Programme From the Era of Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping was published by Springer in 2022. He has also extensively researched China’s Anti-Access Area Denial Strategy that deals with the Indo-Pacific region.