First Research Project under the “Vice Admiral KK Nayyar Fellowship” (2021-2023)

Subject of Project: “India’s Coastal Resilience vis-a-vis Urban Agglomerations”

Title of Monograph: “Rising Seas and Coastal Impacts: Metropolitan Resilience In India”

Publisher: National Maritime Foundation, Varuna Complex, Airport Road, NH-8, New Delhi-110010

Year: 2023

ISBN:978-81-959791-2-7

Vice Admiral KK Nayyar Fellows, author of the monograph titled, “Rising Seas and Coastal Impacts: Metropolitan Resilience In India”

Dr Chime Youdon is a Research Fellow and the Head of the Blue Economy and Climate Change Cluster at the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi, India. She was the recipient of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) Fellowship (2021–2022).  She is also a VAdm KK Nayyar Fellow who worked on the climate resilience of coastal urban agglomerations research project.  Her research areas of interest include global climate change politics, climate resilience and adaptation of critical maritime infrastructure, nature-based solutions, blue economy, and sustainable development of coastal urban agglomerations.  She has earned her doctorate degree in Comparative Global Climate Change Policies from the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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.