Personnel Announcement (Effective April 1, 2025)

The Sundar Singh Institute had announced that Dr. Isaac Shunsuke Sato had been appointed as the Director of the newly established Centre for the Study of Religion, Politics and International Relations, an advanced interdisciplinary research centre that had been launched with strategic funding from the Ministry of Home Affairs. As part of this transition, Dr. Sato had concluded his tenure as Acting Director, a role in which he had overseen the Institute’s research agenda with distinction and intellectual leadership during a pivotal period of institutional consolidation.

He had been succeeded by Dr. Rajiv K. Menon, who had previously served as Assistant Director and had been promoted in recognition of his substantial contributions to the Centre’s policy research initiatives and his leadership in developing its international academic partnerships.