Rajendra K. Jain was formerly Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Visiting Professor at Warsaw University (February-May 2022). He was formerly Visiting Humboldt Foundation Fellow/Professor at Constance, Freiburg, Leipzig and Tübingen universities as well as Visiting Professor at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris), the Asia-Europe Institute (Kuala Lumpur), and ICCR Professor of Contemporary India at Leuven University (2015). He has been the first Jean Monnet Chair in India. He has most recently published India and Europe in a Changing World: Context, Confrontation, Cooperation (Palgrave, 2023).