Francine R. Frankel (born 1935) is founding director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India[1] and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3] An authority on India's politics, economics and foreign policy,[4] she spent Academic Year 2006-07 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars[5] completing a book on U.S. and India foreign policy using declassified documents and archival sources.