Career
Bajpai returned to India in 1989 and taught at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda for three years, he went back to America to teach at Wesleyan University. In 1993 he returned again to India to the Institute of Contemporary Studies of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. In 1994 he joined Jawaharlal Nehru University as professor of international studies. In 2000, he was as a visitng professor at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. He also worked as a researcher at the Brookings Institute in Washington,D.C. the same year.
In June 2003, Bajpai was appointed eighth Headmaster of the Doon, where he taught courses in general knowledge and English.
Bajpai left Doon in 2009 to join the School of Inter Disciplinary Area studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University. After a short stint at Oxford, he joined the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore as a Senior Professor. He is married to Bobbi, and they have two children, Gayatri and Rudra.
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