Jonah Blank is Chief Policy Advisor for South Asia, Central Asia, and Archipelagic Southeast Asia on the Majority staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

An anthropologist, Dr. Blank is author of Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras, and Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India.

Before entering government service, he served as Senior Editor and foreign correspondent for US News & World Report, and has taught anthropology and politics at Harvard, Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.