Prakash Menon

Lt General (Dr) Prakash Menon is the Director of the Strategic Studies Programme at the Takshashila Institution. He is also Professor Emeritus at Trans Disciplinary University (TDU), Bengaluru and Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced tudies, Bengaluru.

Lt General Menon has a PhD from Madras University for his thesis, ‘Limited War and Nuclear Deterrence in the Indo-Pak Context’. He was appointed by the union cabinet as a member of an expert group for the creation of the Indian National Defence University. He has been decorated with three distinguished service awards—PVSM, AVSM and VSM.