The End of the Free Market

Senior Fellow
Editorial Board, World Policy Journal

Expertise: India, Indian Diaspora, South Asia, France, Equity and Sustainability, Food Security, Global Warming, Globalization, Minority Integration, U.S.-India Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy.

Mira Kamdar has been a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute since 1993, and was Acting Director in 1996-97. Her latest book is Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World 2008 (Scribner). The book has been published in over a dozen foreign editions. Her critically acclaimed memoir, Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past (Public Affairs 2000) was a 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and won the 2002 Washington Book Award. She is currently writing a book on Gandhi.

Mira is teaching a course in 2010 at Sciences-Po in France on the Rise of India in a Changing World Order. She was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in 2008. Based at the Society's New York headquarters, her work focused on issues of equity and sustainability in a world subject to the accelerating forces of globalization and climate change, and on a changing U.S.-Asia relationship.

Mira is a regular speaker at high-level international gatherings in the United States, Europe and Asia. Her opinions and articles have appeared in publications around the world, including Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, World Policy Journal, Times of India, Daily News & Analysis, Outlook, Tehelka, The Guardian, Yale Global. Mira writes in French for Le Monde Diplomatique magazine and the blog Planète Asie, and for her regular column “Le mot de l’Inde” published in Courrier International. She blogs for the Huffington Post and for World Policy Journal. Mira regularly provides expert commentary for radio and television, including CNN International, Bloomberg TV, BBC, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Headlines Today, TV Asia, Radio France International and France 24.

Experience

Senior Fellow, WPI (1993-present); Acting Director, WPI (1996-97); Associate Fellow, Asia Society (2005 – present); Visiting Professor, SUNY Stony Brook (2009); Visiting Professor, Sciences-Po, 2010.

Honors and Affiliations

Bernard Schwartz Fellow, Asia Society, 2008; 2002 Washington Book Award for Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey from America into Her Indian Family's Past (Plume: 2001); Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection 2000 for Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past (Public Affairs: 2000); Avenue Asia Portraits of Achievement in the Asian-American Community 1996 and 1997; PhD Qualifying Examinations "with distinction";

PEN America; Pacific Council on International Policy; SAJA, South Asian Journalists Association

Education
M.A. and Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
B.A., Reed College

Languages
Fluent in French and Hindi. Reading and aural comprehension of Spanish and Italian. Some Gujarati.

Contact kamdar@worldpolicy.org

Website: http://mirakamdar.com/

Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Economy is  Transforming America and the World

 Motiba’s Tattoos: A Granddaughter’s Journey from America into her Indian Family’s Past