Siddiq Wahid is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of International Relations & Governance Studies, where he lectures on the creation of cultural complexes in Central Eurasia by Tibetans, Mongolians, and the Manchurian/Qing dynasty. He is a historian of medieval Central Eurasia concentrating primarily on the Mongolian and Tibetan cultural complexes. He is also a  Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Himalayan Studies and a Fellow of the Institute for Chinese Studies in New Delhi. Among his other recent positions have been that of Founding Vice Chancellor of Islamic University of Science & Technology in Kashmir, Chair Professor in modern history at the University of Jammu and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He received his BA in political theory from Gustavus Adolphus College, followed by his MA and PhD from Harvard University. In the last five years, his research interest has concentrated on the burgeoning scholarship on the interaction between Central Eurasia and South Asia, thereby forcing a focus on the need for a new epistemology in the world’s understanding of the Himalayan peoples, their landscape, and histories. His last book sized project was Tibet’s Relations with the Himalaya (2017).