Kenneth I. Juster, US Ambassador to India (Ret.) and Ronald E. Bornstein
A Rising India in the 21st Century
Summary
Ken Juster has been a key participant in relations between the United States and India during the first quarter of the 21st century. Among other achievements, in the years before becoming the US Ambassador to India in 2017, he negotiated important trade and technology agreements between the two countries. Please join Ron Bornstein in conversation with Ken Juster on the increasingly important international role of the world’s largest democracy.
Kenneth I. Juster, US Ambassador to India (Ret.)
Ken Juster has over forty years’ experience as a diplomat, business executive, and law partner. He served as the 25th US Ambassador to the Republic of India from 2017 to 2021. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Bhutan. For his service as ambassador, Ken received the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award, the Defense Department’s Distinguished Public Service Award, the Director of National Intelligence’s Exceptional Service Award, and the Energy Department’s Excellence Award. Ken holds a law degree from the Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government (Phi Beta Kappa) from Harvard College. He clerked for Judge James L. Oakes on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ronald E. Bornstein
Ronald E. Bornstein is an international lawyer who has practiced in New York, Paris, San Francisco, and London. He is a member of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and a Lifetime Member of the Pacific Pension & Investment Institute (PPI). He was a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Academy of International Law at The Hague and a visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Dakar. Ron grew up in Manhattan and is a lifelong student of the “Great American Songbook” and American music from 1920 to 1970.
Watch video of Ronald E. Bornstein in Conversation with Barry Kester, author of Round in Circles, the Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, at Jewish Book Week, London 2025: JewishLiteraryFoundation.co.uk