Richard Rossow is a senior adviser and holds the Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In this role, he helps frame and shape policies to promote greater business and economic engagement between the two countries, with a unique focus on tracking and engaging Indian states. He has been working on U.S.-India relations for over 25 years. He joined CSIS in 2014 after a long career in a range of private sector roles focused on India. Prior to CSIS, he served as director for South Asia at McLarty Associates, leading the firm’s work for clients in India and the neighboring region, and he retains his affiliation with the firm. From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Rossow was with New York Life Insurance company, most recently as head of international governmental affairs, where he developed strategic plans for the company’s public policy and global mergers and acquisitions work and helped manage the firm’s policy issues in India. From 1998 to 2008, Mr. Rossow served as deputy director of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), the world’s leading advocacy group on behalf of strengthening economic ties between the United States and India. While at USIBC, he managed the council’s policy groups in the energy, information technology, insurance, media and entertainment, and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Rossow received his BA from Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
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Businesses bank on Narendra Modi election win to ease India’s bottlenecks
Richard M. Rossow in Financial Times — April 14, 2024
Biden Trumps Modi In Fight for Foreign Investment
Richard M. Rossow in Bloomberg — April 4, 2024
India’s Most Powerful Politician in Generations Can’t Win Over Its Farmers
Richard M. Rossow in Wall Street Journal — February 20, 2024
India’s Most Powerful Politician in Generations Can’t Win Over Its Farmers
Richard M. Rossow in The Wall Street Journal — February 20, 2024
After ‘undercover agent’ allegations, US opts ‘drips of leaks’ tactic. Will this dent India-US ties?
Richard M. Rossow in The Economic Times — December 22, 2023
As Russia projects its ‘great-power ambitions’ into India’s backyard, will it ‘irritate’ US, China?
Richard M. Rossow in South China Morning Post — December 18, 2023
Bloomberg Markets: The Close 09/08/2023
Richard M. Rossow in Bloomberg — September 8, 2023
Biden and Modi project G-20 unity as globalization frays
Richard M. Rossow in Politico — September 5, 2023
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Modi Government's Midterm Reform Assessment
Event — December 1, 2021
Online Event: Indian MSMEs Role in Building Supply Chain Resilience
Event — November 3, 2020
Online Event: Rating India 2020: Covid-19 Challenges and Path to Economic Recovery
Event — August 7, 2020
The Distance Between Davos and Delhi
Commentary by Richard M. Rossow — February 1, 2018
Competing Visions: How Infrastructure is Reshaping the Eurasian Supercontinent
Event — September 28, 2017
U.S.-India Economic Ties in the Trump-Modi Era
Event — April 21, 2017
U.S.-India Economic Ties and the Final Modi-Obama Summit
Event — June 6, 2016