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Professor Nirmala Joshi of the Centre for Russian, Central Asian and East European Studies in the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University has been teaching and guiding research on Russia and Central Asia for a number of years. She was the Chairperson of the Centre for two years (1997-99) and later was appointed the Director of the University Grants Commission’s Programme on Russia and Central Asia for three years. She has contributed several articles to scholarly journals and books covering a wide range of issues on Russia and Central Asia. her major areas of research are foreign and security policy, democratization and energy security of Russia, Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Professor Joshi is the author of Indo-Soviet Relations: Unofficial Attitudes and Contacts: 1917-47 and has edited India and Hungary: Perspectives on the Changing World Order. Presently, she is working on Central Asia’s Security Concerns: Implications for India. Professor Nirmala Hoshi has been the member of the Indo-Russian Joint Commission for Co-operation in Social Sciences. She was nominated a member of the Executive Council of the Indian Council of World Affairs. She is member of the Standing Committee of the UGC’s Area Studies Programme. Professor Joshi has widely traveled to Russia, Europe and the United States of America