Abhijit Singh

Abhijit Singh was a former naval officer and a Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). A maritime professional with specialist and command experience on front-line Indian naval ships, he was involved in drafting India’s Maritime Strategy (2007). He was a keen commentator on maritime affairs and wrote extensively on security and governance issues across the Indian Ocean and Pacific littorals.

His articles and commentaries were published by institutions such as the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), the Lowy Interpreter, World Politics Review, The Diplomat, and the CSIS Pacific Forum.

Abhijit was the editor of two books on maritime security—Indian Ocean Challenges: A Quest for Cooperative Solutions (2013) and Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific (2014). His research focused on India’s expanding maritime reach, the security of sea lines of communication in the Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean governance, and maritime infrastructure in Asian littoral states.

In 2010, he assisted the late Vice Admiral G. M. Hiranandani (Retd.) in the authorship of the third volume of Indian Naval History, Transition to Guardianship.