Rajan Menon (born September 22, 1953) is a political scientist from India. Currently, Dr. Menon is the Emeritus Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science at the City College of New York. [1] He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and a Senior Research Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. [2] [3]