Puneet Talwar is a Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute in Washington, DC.  He has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs (2014 to 2015), Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council for the Gulf States, Iran, and Iraq (2009 to 2014), and as a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff (2001 to 2009).

Mr. Talwar holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a native of Washington, DC.