Iskander Rehman is a Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments where he focuses on U.S. grand strategy, defense policy, and emerging security challenges in the Indo-Pacific. Prior to joining CSBA, Iskander was a Stanton Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has also held fellowships at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and at the Observer Research Foundation and the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, both in New Delhi. He has written a number of reports and book chapters and his work has been published in journals such as Asian Security and the Naval War College Review. His research has also featured in The Diplomat, The Guardian, The Economist, The National Interest, and The Financial Times. Iskander has lived and worked in France, India and the United States, and graduated with distinction from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Sciences Po) with a M.A. in Political Science and Theory and an M.A. in Comparative Politics. He is currently in the process of completing a PHD in Political Science at Sciences Po.