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Global Terrorism and Security
Monday, 11 September, 2006 from 13h00 – 14h30
EIAS, Brussels

Speaker: Mr. Sachin Pilot, Member of Parliament, Congress Party, India
Chair: Mr Malcolm Subhan, Vice-Chair, European Institute for Asian Studies

Listen to an interview with the speaker (mp3)

The European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) was honoured to welcome Mr Sachin Pilot to its premises to speak on global terrorism and security on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Mr Pilot recently travelled with an Indian parliamentary delegation to the U.S., where he had the opportunity to discuss inter alia with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Deputy National Security Adviser J.D. Crouch, the Council on Foreign Relations, the US India Business Council, the National Endowment
for Democracy, and members of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans.

Sachin Pilot, son of the late Congress leader Rajesh Pilot, was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha (Lower House) from the Dausa Parliamentary Constituency of Rajasthan in May 2004, becoming the youngest Member of Parliament in India at the age of 26. Conscious of his prominent political heritage, his aim is to bring greater accountability and transparency into the Indian system. He is actively engaged in improving the circumstances of farmers and laborers in his country by spreading a message of communal harmony, social justice and empowerment and is working to inculcate a sense of social and political responsibility amongst the youth that live in the rural and semi-urban areas.

Additionally, he maintains a keen interest in the affairs of Kashmir and the North-East. A graduate of New Delhi’s Air Force School, Sachin Pilot has a B.A. degree from St. Stephens College, Delhi University and has worked as an intern for the BBC’s New Delhi Bureau and for two and a half years at General Motors before studying for an MBA at the prestigious Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.

Listen to an interview with the speaker (mp3)