Dr. Rafiq Dossani is a Director of RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy and Senior Economist at RAND Corporation. His research interests include technology policy, higher education and South Asian security & regionalism. Previously, Dr. Dossani was a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Director of the Stanford Center for South Asia. He has authored/edited the following books: Higher Education: Triumph of the BRICs?; The Prospects for Peace in South Asia; and Telecommunications Reform in India. Dr. Dossani holds a B.A. in economics from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, India; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; and a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University.