Satyendra Prasad

Dr. Satyendra Prasad is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Dr. Satyendra Prasad was a nonresident senior fellow in the South Asia and Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Prasad is the climate lead for Abt Associates based in Australia and is the former ambassador and permanent representative of the Republic of Fiji to the United Nations.  

As nonresident senior fellow, Prasad joins the Indian Ocean Initiative and the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics programs working on issues of climate and sustainability with a special focus on the Pacific region. Prasad’s expertise on small island developing states and Pacific regionalism builds upon the work produced by Carnegie’s Indian Ocean Initiative which convenes an annual summit, Ocean Nations: The Indo-Pacific Islands Dialogue. His work focuses on the nexus between islands, geopolitics, development, and climate change in the maritime domain