Rajendra K. Jain was formerly  Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for European Studies, and Director, Europe Area Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He has been the first Jean Monnet Chair in India  and has most recently published Changing Indian Images of the European Union: Perception and Misperception (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and India, Europe and Pakistan (2018).