Tanvi Kulkarni is a Senior Policy Fellow at APLN. Her research looks at nuclear politics, including nuclear programmes, doctrines, arms control and confidence building measures, with a specialisation on South Asia. She has a PhD in Diplomacy and Disarmament studies from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Her PhD thesis examines why states in a nuclear dyad negotiate nuclear confidence-building measures (NCBMs). She has a postgraduate Masters degree in defence and strategic studies and an undergraduate degree in political science. Tanvi is also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi and the South Asia Advisor for the International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) South Asia Programme. Tanvi has previously held a teaching position at the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at the Savitribai Phule Pune University and has worked with the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and the India-Pakistan Chaophraya Track II Dialogue in New Delhi. She was awarded a visiting research fellowship supported by the Stimson Center in 2015.

Project responsibilities at APLN:

• Voices from the Pacific Island Countries
• Advancing Nuclear Fail-Safe in the Asia-Pacific
• Nuclear Order in the Asia-Pacific

Previous projects:

• Maritime Incidents and Escalation in the Asia-Pacific
• China-India-Pakistan Nuclear Trilemma
• WMD in Asia-Pacific