Speaker Biographies

Lisa Curtis is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, where she focuses on America’s economic, security, and political relationships with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Before joining Heritage in August 2006, she worked on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a professional staff member for three years, handling South Asia issues for then-chairman Richard Lugar (R-Ind.). From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Curtis served as the White House appointed senior adviser in the State Department’s South Asia Bureau, where she advised the assistant secretary on India-Pakistan relations. She also worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency in the late 1990s. Ms. Curtis served in the U.S. embassies in Pakistan and India in the mid-1990s.

Christopher Griffin is a research fellow in Asian studies at AEI. Before joining AEI in January 2005, he was a research assistant in the strategic studies department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Since May 2006, Mr. Griffin has been an associate editor of Armed Forces Journal, for which he writes on defense-industrial issues and military blogs.

Timothy D. Hoyt is a professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College, where he lectures on strategy, terrorism, counterinsurgency, military transformation, weapons of mass destruction, maritime strategies, and contemporary conflict, and teaches an elective course on South Asian security with Andrew Winner. Before coming to the Naval War College, Mr. Hoyt taught graduate courses at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. His recent publications include chapters and articles on the war on terrorism in South Asia, security and conflict in the developing world, the limits of military force in the global war on terrorism, the evolution of Kashmir as a nuclear flashpoint, Pakistani nuclear doctrine and strategic thought, the U.S. maritime strategy, the impact of nuclear weapons on recent crises in South Asia, and the future of U.S.-Pakistani relations. He is the author of Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy: India, Iraq and Israel (Routledge, 2006), which examines the role of military industry in the national security policies of India, Israel, and Iraq. Mr. Hoyt has recently begun a joint project on U.S.-Indian maritime cooperation and is actively involved in Track Two negotiations with both India and Pakistan. He is the assistant editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies.

Ashley J. Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He served in the Department of State as senior adviser to the ambassador at the American Embassy in India and then briefly on the National Security Council staff as special assistant to the president and senior director for strategic planning and Southwest Asia. Prior to his government service, Mr. Tellis was a senior policy analyst at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND Graduate School. His research interests focus on international relations theory, military strategy and proliferation issues, South Asian politics, and U.S.-Asian security relations. He is the author of the recently released Carnegie report, Pakistan and the War on Terror: Conflicted Goals, Compromised Performance.  His academic publications have appeared in several edited volumes and journals, including The Journal of Strategic Studies, Asian Survey, Orbis, Comparative Strategy, Naval War College Review, and Security Studies.

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