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Former Service-Faculty

Captain Rikeesh Sharma
Research Fellow
November 2011 – May 2014

Captain (Dr) Gurpreet Singh Khurana
Executive Director and Research Fellow
March 2014- May 2019

Commander Dinesh Yadav (Retd)
Deputy Director & Research Fellow
31 Aug 2015- 20 April 2017 & 03 July 2018 – 13 Aug 2019

Cdr Prakash Gopal (Retd)
Research Fellow
March 2016-April 2018

Group Captain Sanjay Misra
Senior Fellow
April 2017- October 2017

Commander Sriharsha
Deputy Director & Research Fellow
21 April 2017 – 02 July 2018

Colonel Arvinder Singh Sodhi
Research Fellow
October 2017- December 2017

Captain (Dr) Nitin Agarwala,
Research Fellow
October 2017- December 2019

Captain Sarabjeet S Parmar
Former Executive Director and Senior Fellow
19 April 2018 – 30 June 2023

Lt Colonel (Dr) Mohit Nayal
Former Research Fellow
Sept 2018- Sept 2020

Commodore Somen Banerjee
Senior Fellow
Oct 2018- Aug 2020

Captain Himadri Das
Senior Fellow
Coastal Security, Offshore Security & Maritime Domain Awareness
31 Aug 2020 – 22 Dec 2022

Captain (Dr) Sibapada Rath
Research Fellow
21 June 2019 – 31 March 2022

Commandant Manoranjan Srivastava
Research Fellow
28 June 2019 – 13 Jul 2021

Commander Anand Kumar
Deputy Director & Research Fellow
10 May 2019 – 30 June 2022

Commandant RK Shrivastava
Senior Fellow
Ocean Governance, Maritime Order, Non-Traditional Maritime Security
23 July 2019 – 26 July 2021

Wing Commander Nitin Kumar Gupta
Research Fellow
Multi-Disciplinary Technical Cluster
20 June 2022 – 21 June 2024

Former Civilian-Faculty

Dr Joshy M Paul
Associate Fellow
01 June 2006- 31 March 2014

Dr SN Pattanayak
Research Fellow
01 December 2006- 31 December 2008

Dr Sunil Kumar Agarwal
Research Associate
01 January 2011-31 October 2011 

Mr Jithin S George
Research Associate
01 May 2011- 31 August 2012

Dr Sudesh Rani
Associate Fellow
01 January 2012-30 April 2014

Dr Omprakash Dahiya
Associate Fellow
25 April 2012-24 April 2015

Dr TC Karthikheyan
Associate Fellow
15 February 2013-21 August 2013

Mr Prakash Panneerselvam
Research Associate
10 September 2013-20 April 2014

Mr Shashwat Tiwari
Research Associate
1 September 2014- 31 June 2015

Ms Antara Singh Ghosal 
Research Associate
02 February 2015-07 June 2016

Ms Abhiruchi Chatterjee
Research Associate
03 August 2015-2 August 2016

Ms Premesha Saha
Associate Fellow
03 August 2015- 5 July 2016

Ms Nitika Srivastava
Research Associate
07 September 2015- 06 September 2016

Ms Shereen Sherif
Research Associate
07 September 2015-06 September 2016

Ms Eshita Rudra
Research Associate
01 August 2016-26 May 2017

Mr Manpreet Singh Chawla
Research Associate
01 August 2016-06 January 2017

Mr Gaurav Dutta
Research Associate
1 August 2016- 8 January 2017

Ms Vasudha Chawla
Research Associate
1 August 2016 – 31 July 2018

Ms Dolma Tsering
Research Associate
15 September 2016-26 May 2017

Ms Anjelina Patrick
Research Associate
15 September 2016-31 October 2018

Ms PT Shahana
Research Associate
01 May 2017 01 April 2018

Ms Surbhi Moudgil
Research Associate
01 May 2017-26 August 2018

Mr Jyotishman Bhagawati
 Research Associate
8 August 2017- 7 February 2018

Mr Shelly Mahajan
Research Associate
01 June 2018-18 June 2018

Mr Jay Maniyar
Research Associate
May – December 2018 &
April 2019 – November 2021

Ms Anupama Ghosh
Associate Fellow
01 June 2018-09 Oct 2018 &
01 Sept 2020-31 Oct2020

Mr Rana Divyank Chaudhary
Associate Fellow
27 June 2018-01 October  2019

Mr Himanil Raina
Research Associate
15 July 2018- 25 Mar 2019

Mr Suriya Narayanan
Associate Fellow
01 August 2018-31 July 2020

Mr Abhirup Das
Adjunct Research/Associate Fellow
01 Nov 2018-10 Feb 2019
& 15 Nov 2019-01 Jan 2020

Ms Ritika V Kapoor
Research Associate
22 April 2019- 30 June 2020

Ms Aastha Vohra
Research Associate
17 June 2019-16 June 2020

Tejal Khanna Research Associate

Ms Tejal Khanna
Research Associate
01 November 2019-30 April 2020

Ms Apoorvi Mishra
Research Associate
01 November 2019-31 October 2020

Dr Sameer Guduru
Associate Fellow
15 December 2019- 31 October 2020

Ms Soumya Shrivastava
Research Associate
10 February 2020-12 October 2020

Mr Joshua T Khauté
Junior Research Associate
01 March 20 – 31 August 20

 Ms Ngurang Reena
Associate Fellow
1 Sept 2020 – 1 Feb 2021

Dr Saurabh Thakur
Associate Fellow
01 September 2020 – 31 March 2022

Ms Nikita Vats
Research Associate
15 January 2021 – 31 August 2022

Dr Manoj Babu Buraga
Adjunct Fellow and Associate Fellow
The European Union and Indo-Pacific Cluster

Ms Shayesta Nishat Ahmad
Honorary Adjunct Fellow and Associate Fellow
The European Union and Indo-Pacific Cluster

Ms Purnima Malik
Associate Fellow
15 Oct 2021- 31 Dec 2022

Ms Sreoshi Sinha
Associate Fellow
Indo-Pacific Cluster

Mr Tunchinmang Langel
Associate Fellow
15 February 2022-30 September 2022

Dr Apila Sangtam
Associate Fellow
Indo-Pacific Cluster

Mr Raghvendra Kumar
Associate Fellow
Africa’s Maritime Geostrategies Cluster

Mr Deepansh Tripathi
Associate Fellow
04 April -14 September 2022

Ms Rhythma Kaul
Associate Fellow
Public International Maritime Law (PIML) Cluster

Dr Shushant VC Parashar

Associate Fellow

Dr Rejaul Karim Laskar

Associate Fellow

Dr Sourav Bhattacharyya
Honorary Adjunct Fellow and Associate Fellow
Blue Economy & Climate Change Cluster

Dr Mayank Mishra
Associate Fellow
Public International Maritime Law Cluster

Ms Swapna Nair

Associate Fellow

Dr Avinandan Choudhury

Associate Fellow

Ms Krithi Ganesh
Research Associate 
Pakistan, China, Russia, Turkey (PCRT) Cluster
(04 January 2023- 30 May 2024)

Mr Bakshinder Singh Bhatia

Junior Research Associate

Dr Parth Arora
Associate Fellow

Blue Economy and Climate Change (BECC) Cluster

Ms Harshita Dey
Junior Research Associate
Oceania Cluster

Ms Yukti Panwar
Junior Research Associate
East Asia Cluster

Ms Titli Dinda 
Junior Research Associate 
Economy and Management (Multifarious aspects of Economy)

Ms Phalguni Gadley
Junior Research Associate
Oceania Cluster

Ms Ayushi Srivastava
Associate Fellow
Multi-Disciplinary and Technical Cluster (MDTC)

Visiting Fellows

Mr Indranil Banerjie
Visiting Fellow
16 Jan 2010-09 August 2010

Dr Patrick Bratton
Visiting Fellow, National Maritime Foundation

Mr Mauro Bonavita
Visiting Fellow, National Maritime Foundation

Ms Jessica Burton
Ph.D. Candidate
Visiting Fellow, National Maritime Foundation of India

Mr Thibault Fournol
Visiting Fellow, NMF

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