School of Conflict and Security Studies

Dr. C. P Ramanarayanan  has completed five and half  years  as Vice Chancellor in Defence Institute of Advanced Technology,  Pune.  Prior to that he had served for nearly 36 years in Defence Research and Development organization where he joined through UPSC . He had served in various laboratories like Naval Science Technological Laboratory, (NSTL) Vizag, Vehicle Research Development Establishment(VRDE) Ahmednagar, Gas Turbine Research Establishment(GTRE) Bangalore.   He completed undergraduate in   Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College Calicut,  and graduation from IISc, Bangalore and obtained PhD from School of Energy Systems of JNTU Hyderabad.

He had served as Director at VRDE and GTRE. He also served as Director- General of Aeronautical Systems and also as Director General Human Resource Development at DRDO Headquarters.

During his tenure has has actively contributed to development of propulsion systems for under water weapons,  surface vehicles and Fighter aircraft systems.

He is Fellow of National Academy of Engineering, Aeronautical Society of India and Institution of India in addition to various other Academy and societies. He had received DRDO Scientist of the Year 2005 from then Prime Minister of India and DRDO Technology  Leadership award 2015 from Defence Minister of India in addition to many more prestigious awards .

He had guided three Students in their doctoral programs as guide. He has several publications in International and national journals. He had served as India representative in International Society of Air Breathing Engines, President of  Society of Aerospace Quality and Reliability,  Chairman Aeronautical society of India Bangalore chapter to mention a few.

His interest includes understanding human behaviour  and transnational analysis.

Dr. Andreas Raspotnik is a Senior Researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway, and a Senior Researcher at the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University in Bodø, Norway. Andreas is also a Senior Fellow and Leadership Group Member at The Arctic Institute - Center for Circumpolar Security Studies and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center's Global Europe Program, both in Washington, DC. Much of his research analyses the work of the European Union and its various institutions to develop a comprehensive and integrated EU Arctic policy, as well as the broader impact/footprint the EU has on the Arctic region. This research focus is further embedded into matters of Arctic geopolitics and EU foreign and security policy, particularly regarding the regional relationship between the EU and the Russian Federation. Additional research tackles the development of the Arctic’s blue economy, both from a conceptual as well as practical angle (fisheries and aquaculture), as well as regional questions on the applicability of international law of the sea.

Dr. Tim Stuchtey holds a Master's degree in economics from the University of Münster, Germany and a doctorate in the same field from the Technical University of Berlin. He commenced his career as a personal assistant to the President of the TU Berlin before assuming a role at the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations specialising in economic policy. In 2001, he relocated to the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he subsequently assumed the role of Head of the Presidential Department. At Humboldt, Tim established the Humboldt Institution on Transatlantic Issues (HITI) and in 2007 relocated to the American-German Institute (formerly the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, where he assumed the roles of Senior Fellow and Program Director of Business and Economics. In 2010, Tim assumed the role of Executive Director of the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) in Potsdam, Germany. He oversees national and international research consortia on civil security and conducts his own research in the field of (cyber-)security economics and security policy. He is a regular columnist and contributor in the German media and a sought-after speaker on security and economic policy.

Kamrul Hossain, an international law expert by training, is a Research Professor and the Director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. He is the Chair of the University of the Arctic’s Legal Research and Education and leads the Thematic Network on Arctic Law. Hossain holds the Adjunct Professorship of International Law at the University of Lapland. His research broadly covers international environmental law, ocean governance, and human rights laws, particularly as they apply to the Arctic. He specifically focuses on climate change, climate justice, and human rights applicable to Arctic Indigenous peoples. Over the years, he has extensively published in almost all areas of Arctic governance, including climate change, environmental governance, biodiversity, geopolitics, the law of the sea, human rights and human security, etc., highlighting legal, institutional, and policy perspectives. In his research, he increasingly bridges a link between the Arctic and other Polar regions, particularly the Third Pole Himalayan region, as part of the global environmental systems concerning the impacts of climate change. He collaborates nationally and globally with scholars and institutions on issues related to the circumpolar Arctic and other polar regions. He has been the Principal Investigator of several international and national competitive research grants from renowned funding instruments.

D.B.Venkatesh Varma served in the Indian Foreign Service from 1988 to 2021. During his diplomatic career, he worked in the Office of the External Affairs Minister and in the Prime Minister’s Office. He served as India’s Ambassador to Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, to the Kingdom of Spain and to the Russian Federation, until October 2021.He has vast experience in India’s Security and Defence policies and served as Joint Secretary in charge of Disarmament and International Security in the Ministry of External Affairs. He was the first Recipient of the S.K.Singh Award for Excellence in the Indian Foreign Service in 2011 for his contribution to the negotiations of the Civil Nuclear Initiative. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the VIF New Delhi.  He is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters