Kanti Prasad Bajpai comes from an eminent family of Indian diplomats: his father, Uma Shankar Bajpai was a former Indian High Commissioner to Canada;[5] an uncle, K.S. Bajpai was a former Ambassador to United States; and his grandfather, Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, was Agent-General for India in the United States prior to India gaining independence.His all family enrolled to study at The Doon School.
After leaving Doon in 1972, Bajpai obtained Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in British Columbia, Canada, and returned to Doon and taught there in 1981. Dr. Bajpai went to North America for PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois in 1982.[6]
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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 a visiting 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.[7] 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.[8] He is married to Bobbi, and they have two children, Gayatri and Rudra.