Dr Saurabh Thakur is a Consultant with United Nations OΜce on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Regional OΜce for South Asia. Previously, he worked with the Ministry of External AΛairs, New Delhi, as part of the research division that oversaw the establishment of the G20 Secretariat for the Indian Presidency (2022-2023). He was an Associate Fellow in, Blue Economy and Climate Change research cluster, at the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi. Dr Thakur’s research interests include the politics of climate change, the blue economy, maritime security, multilateral negotiations, G20 diplomacy, regional cooperation and the Indian Ocean Region. He has held a number of prestigious fellowships including the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) Fellowship (2021-22), the VAdm KK Nayyar Fellowship (2020-2022) and the Kodikara Fellowship (2020-21). He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.