Mr. Kamal Malhotra

Kamal Malhotra is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India. He was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center between June 2022-May 2025. He has also Guest Lectured at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS), Krea University, India. Prior to his retirement from the United Nations in September 2021, Mr. Malhotra had a rich career of over four decades as a management consultant, in senior positions in international NGOs, as co-founder of a think-tank, FOCUS on the Global South, and in the United Nations (UN) including as its Head in Malaysia, Turkiye and Vietnam (2008-21). He was UNDPs Senior Adviser on Inclusive Globalization, based in New York, USA, for most of the prior decade. Mr. Malhotra is widely published.

Trump’s Resurgent Tariff Wars: Will and Can the World Unite Against Them?

New Delhi, July 17, 2025: Trump’s Resurgent Trade Wars: Will and Can the World Unite Against Them?   The time has surely now come for countries, erstwhile allies and foes of the US alike, to unite in the Geneva corridors of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in other appropriate forums against the tariff tantrums […]

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Financing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Government 24/7: India and the Global South

(Presentation at the Boston Global Forum Conference on the Boston Finance Accord for AI Governance 24/7, Loeb House, Harvard University, April 22, 2025) by Kamal Malhotra While India ranks in the global top five on Stanford University’s AI Vibrancy Index experts agree that India is many years behind the two global leaders, China and the USA. The Government

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Turkiye and India: Similar Leadership Styles, Similar Outcomes

Introduction Democracy requires good governance, which in turn, requires high quality policies and institutions which serve as important checks and balances. What matters most for the quality of a democracy, however, is good leadership with vision, wisdom, foresight, ethics, morals, values and principles. If these attributes are either missing or in serious deficit, both policies

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