Richard Connerney

Richard Connerney was a fellow for the Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA) and a former Phillips Talbot Fellow for the Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA). He lived and worked in Lucknow, India from 2005-2007. Before joining ICWA he was a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a senior editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Connerney studied Sanskrit and classical Tibetan on the way to earning an M.A. from the University of Hawaii in Asian Religion. First arriving in India in 1990 at the age of 19 as an exchange student, he returned in 1994 with the help of an overseas study grant from the University of Hawaii Office of International Studies and Programs. He speaks Hindi, Urdu and Nepali, among other languages.