Bibhu Prasad Routray is a Singapore-based Security Analyst, Consultant and Columnist. He received his doctoral degree in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

As a security analyst, Routray has worked in think tanks and also in the Government of India. He headed the Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi's project office in Guwahati. Routray served as a Deputy Director in the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Prime Minister's Office, New Delhi, where he handled the Internal Security as well as South Asian neighbourhood desk.

In Singapore, Dr. Routray was a Visiting Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies where he conducted projects relating to India's counter-terrorism architecture. He conducts terrorism related courses for business schools and for the media personnel. Currently, he is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi and Fellow (Counter-insurgency Studies) at the Takshashila Institution. He is also engaged in writing a book on strategies to deal with the left-wing extremist movement in India.

He writes a regular column in the New Indian Express, publishes regularly in various newspapers and websites like Business Standard, Straits Times, Rediff and Al Arabiya. He has been quoted in several publications and has appeared on radio and television interviews in the BBC, Doordarshan and NDTV. He blogs regularly at http://warantiwar.blogspot.com/.