Dr. Vijay Sakhuja (PhD) is one of the founding members of the Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict, New Delhi. Dr Sakhuja is the former Director of the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi. He is now Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, and Visiting Senior Fellow at the Maritime Security Programme of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr Sakhuja has been on the research faculty of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore; Director (Research) of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA); Senior Fellow of the Centre for Airpower Studies (CAPS) and Observer Research Foundation (ORF); Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), and United Service Institution of India (USI). Dr Sakhuja received an M.Phil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has published over 40 books, edited volumes and monographs on international relations, Indo-Pacific geopolitics, Southeast Asia and South Asian security, maritime security, maritime history, and the Arctic and Blue Economy. His current research focuses on maritime connectivity, infrastructure, and disruptive and neo-digital technologies. He is the author of ‘Asian Maritime Power in the 21st Century: Strategic Transactions - China, India, Southeast Asia’; ‘Confidence Building from the Sea: An Indian Initiative’; co-author of ‘Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal: Evolving Geographies of Fear and Hope’; His recent academic works are Asia and the Arctic: Narratives, Perspectives and Policies (2016), Perspectives on Blue Economy (2017), The Blue Economy: Concept, Constituents and Development (2017), and South Asia Defence & Strategic Perspective (2018). He is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Indian Ocean Region (Taylor & Francis).