Mr P S Suryanarayana is Adjunct Senior Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, since September 2020. Earlier, he was Visiting Senior Fellow at the RSIS for 25 months and, before that, Editor (Current Affairs) at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS) for six years.
He is the author of three books: The Elusive Tipping Point: China-India Ties for a New Order (World Scientific, Singapore, 2021); Smart Diplomacy: Exploring China-India Synergy (World Century, USA, 2016); and The Peace Trap: An Indo-Sri Lankan Political Crisis (Affiliated East West Press, India, 1988).
Originally, as foreign correspondent of India’s English-language daily, The Hindu, he served successively in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Asia-Pacific region (with Singapore as his base and by travelling widely across the region). He has interviewed national leaders and diplomats of South Asian and East Asian countries including China, Japan, ASEAN (including Singapore), Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and others. Reporting from conflict zones, he also interviewed several top militant leaders. His journalistic assignments included the coverage of civil wars in Sri Lanka and Afghanistan; political unrest in Pakistan, ‘East Timor’ and Fiji; and the US-led ‘Desert Storm’ in the Gulf, at different times.
Suryanarayana was a delegate at the launch of Belt and Road Forum (BRF) by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2017, and a participant at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum in 2019. He has also attended the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore for a number of years. He holds Master of Arts (University of Madras, India, 1971), and he participated in a four-week-long ‘Media Seminar’ on America’s foreign policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the US in 1992.
