Dr. Seema Gahlaut is the Director of Training and Outreach at the Center for International Trade and Security (CITS), and adjunct faculty at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia. She teaches courses on American Government & Politics, Political Economy and National Security in Southern Asia, and Politics of Trade & Security Policy at SPIA and lectures on nonproliferation issues at the CITS Security Leadership Program.

 

Dr. Gahlaut directs the CITS Export Control Academy – an intensive 2-3 week program offered three times a year. The Academy is designed to provide comprehensive and detailed training on international and US export control issues to U.S. and foreign government officials and representatives from industry, media and non-government organizations.

In addition to this, Dr. Gahlaut has been directing and/or coordinating training and outreach projects aimed at Indian and Chinese dual-use industry, the Defense Research and Development Organization (Government of India), Chinese government officials, and the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association. She regularly briefs government officials in India, the United States, and in other European countries on export control issues. As a member of the Export Control Experts Group in the WMD Working Group of the CSCAP (Council and Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific), she follows export control issues in India, Pakistan, Singapore, and other ASEAN states, as well as developments in the Australia Group and the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
She has appeared on CNN TalkBack Live and often contributes to Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and BBC Radio (Hindi Service) as an expert. She has been quoted in a variety of publications such as the New York Times, Mother Jones, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Aerospace Daily, Asia Times, Times of India, and Bloomberg.com.

Dr. Gahlaut is the co-editor of Engaging India: US Strategic Relations with the World’s Largest Democracy (Routledge, 1999). She is a co-author of Export Control Developments in India: Update 2005 [CITS Report, Spring 2005]; Roadmap to Reform: Creating a New Multilateral Export Control Regime [CITS Report, October 2004]; To Supply or to Deny: Assessing Nonproliferation Export Controls in Five Key States [New York: Kluwer Law International, 2004]; Reforming Multilateral Export Controls [CITS Report, February 2004], Strengthening Multilateral Export Controls [CITS Report, November 2002], “Curbing Proliferation in Emerging Suppliers: Export Controls in India and Pakistan” [Arms Control Today, September 2003] and “Do Export Control Regimes Have Members They Really Want?” [Comparative Strategy, Fall 2003]. Her shorter pieces have appeared in Defense News, Defense & Security Analysis, Export Practitioner, Foreign Policy (online), The Hindu, Indian Defense Review, Journal of Commerce, Orbis and USI Journal (New Delhi).

 

Dr. Gahlaut has an M.A. and M. Phil. from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

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