Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

Dr. Alvite Singh Ningthoujam is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the Middle East Institute, New Delhi. He holds Ph. D., from the Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for his doctoral thesis on Israel’s Arms Exports and the US Factor: Case Studies of China and South Africa. He served as Consultant at the Strategic Affairs Wing of the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), New Delhi, from July 2017 to July 2019. Before that, he was a Senior Research Associate at Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi, where he focused on issues pertaining to the Middle East and, trends and developments in International Terrorism, particularly focusing on Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) or Daesh, and its footprints in India, South Asia and Southeast Asia. In 2010-2011, he also served as a Fellow at the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. His research interests include India’s relations with the Middle Eastern countries, Israel’s relations with the Southeast and East Asian countries, its military exports to the Asia-Pacific countries, and Sino-Middle East relations.