Ms. Cleo Paskal is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington, D.C. She has testified before the U.S. Congress, regularly moderates/lectures for training seminars for the U.S. Military, and has taught at defense colleges in the United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada and Oman. She is widely published in the academic and popular press, and is a columnist with The Sunday Guardian (India). Other affiliations include: Fellow, Conference of Defence Associations Institute; Senior Fellow, Usanas Foundation (India); Collaborator, Network for Strategic Analysis; International Board of Advisors, Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies (India); International Board of Advisors, Global Counter-Terrorism Council (India).