Shantesh Kumar Singh is a Professor at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is currently serving as the Director of the Human Rights Studies Program at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi. He has worked as a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh. He has attained his research degrees, MPhil/Ph.D., from School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow on Global Health at the International Institute for Global Health (IIGH), United Nations University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.