Dr Vijay Sakhuja was a Consultant (2019 - 2020) at the Vivekananda International Foundation. He is former Director, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi. He was Consultant (August 2019 - September 2020), Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi and Visiting Senior Fellow, Cambodia Institute for Cooperation and Peace, (CICP) Phnom Penh. He has been on the research faculty and was associated with a number of think tanks: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore; Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore; Director (Research), Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA); Centre for Airpower Studies (CAPS); Observer Research Foundation (ORF); Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), and United Service Institution of India (USI). A former Indian Navy officer, Vijay Sakhuja received MPhil and PhD degrees from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has published over 40 books, edited and co-edited volumes and monographs, and specializes in issues of national security and public policy, particularly in the context of ocean affairs, geopolitics, Climate Change, Arctic, Blue Economy and 4th Industrial Revolution Technologies. Dr Vijay Sakhuja is member of the international editorial board of Journal of Indian Ocean Region (Taylor & Francis) and Journal of Greater Mekong Studies.