India-Australia: Towards Sustainable Partnership in 21st Century

Y. Yagama Reddy (born in 1952) has been a faculty member since 1985 and is currently the Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian & Pacific Studies, a UGC sponsored Area Studies Centre established in 1976 at Sri venkateswara university, Tirupati. Besides associating himself with the teaching programme on regional geography and geopolitics of Southeast Asia and South pacific, he is involved in multidisciplinary research encompassing strategic, security, economic and demographic aspects of Southeast Asia and Australia. He has to his credit 5 books and 27 papers published in national and International journals. He has also presented 37 research papers at various national and international conferences/seminars and delivered lectures at the refresher Courses on Southeast Asia and Australia as well as during his visit to Australia in 2005, on the topics concerning India-Australia bilateral relations. Professor Reddy has also served as the Chairman of the Board of Studies in Southeast Asian and pacific Studies at S.V. University (2001-2004) and is currently a member of Board of South and Southeast Asian studies, University of Madras, Chennai. He was also a member of the UGC Standing Advisory Committee on Area Studies programme, New Delhi (2002-2005). He is a Life member of various professional bodies including the Indian association for the Study of Australia, the Indian Congress for Asia and Pacific Studies, the India association or American Studies, the South Indian American Studies network, and International association of Asian and European Studies as well as a member of Indian Association for Asia and pacific Studies.