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Commodore C Uday Bhaskar (Retd)Honorary Fellow & Former Director

Rear Admiral K Raja Menon (Retd)
Honorary Fellow

Commander Subhash Dutta (Retd)
Honorary Adjunct FellowMarine Technology Studies

Commander (Dr) Kapil Narula (Retd)
Honorary Adjunct FellowEconomic Affairs OfficerUnited Nations

Dr Prabir De
Honorary Adjunct FellowInternational Economics & Trade and Development

Prof V Yoga Jyotsna
Honorary Adjunct FellowIndia’s Foreign Policy & National Security

Prof Adluri Subramanyam Raju
Honorary Adjunct FellowMaritime Affairs in South Asia

Swati Ganeshan
Honorary Adjunct FellowGeopolitical issues in Energy, Climate, Oceans & SDGs

Mahadevan Shankar
Honorary Adjunct FellowInternational Trade & Strategic Affairs in Indo-Pacific

Commodore (Dr) Johnson Odakkal (Retd)
Honorary Adjunct FellowMaritime History

Jabin T Jacob
Adjunct Research FellowMaritime Geostrategies in the Indo-Pacific-China & Taiwan

Captain Kamlesh K Agnihotri
Senior FellowChinese Maritime Issues and Indian Ocean Security Matters

Captain Sarabjeet S Parmar
Senior FellowMaritime Security in the Indo-Pacific, Piracy and Lawfare

Captain Himadri Das
Senior FellowCoastal Security, Offshore Security & Maritime Domain Awareness

Commander Anand Kumar
Research FellowPublic International Maritime Law Cluster

Commander Saurav Mohanty
Research Fellow & Deputy DirectorHard Security Issues- China & Pakistan

Commandant RK Shrivastava
Research FellowEEZ Surveillance, Maritime Security, Pollution Response

Commander Ranendra S Sawan
Research FellowPakistan, China, Russia and Turkey (PCRT) Cluster

Dr Oliver N Gonsalves
Research FellowHead, Maritime Energy-Security and Security-of-Energy (MESSE) Cluster

Dr Pushp Bajaj
Research FellowHead of the Blue Economy & Climate Change (BECC) Cluster

Dr Chime Youdon
Associate FellowVAdm KK Nayyar Fellow Blue Economy & Climate Change Cluster

Dr Manoj Babu Buraga
Associate FellowThe European Union and Indo-Pacific Cluster

Shayesta Nishat Ahmed
Associate FellowThe European Union and Indo-Pacific Cluster

Nikita Vats
Research AssociateIndo-Pacific Cluster

Sreoshi Sinha
Associate FellowIndo-Pacific Cluster

Apila Sangtam
Associate FellowIndo-Pacific Cluster

Tunchinmang Langel
Associate FellowIndo-Pacific Cluster

Raghvendra Kumar
Associate FellowAfrica’s Maritime Geostrategies Cluster

Purnima Malik
Associate FellowPublic International Maritime Law Cluster

John J Vachaparambil
Associate FellowPublic International Maritime Law Cluster

Deepansh Tripathi
Associate FellowPublic International Maritime Law Cluster

Rhythma Kaul
Associate FellowPublic International Maritime Law Cluster

Dr Shushant VC Parashar
Associate FellowMaritime Geostrategies of South Asia Cluster

Research-Support Faculty

Divya Rai
Programme Executive

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