Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation professor at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.Prior to this, he was the Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and held the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India. He has worked as an Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a B. Tech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.