Sameer Patil

Dr Sameer Patil is Director, Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation. 

His work focuses on the intersection of technology and national security, including cybersecurity. In addition, he looks at the geopolitics of emerging technologies and their impact on warfare.

Sameer has previously worked at the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India, and Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations.

Sameer has a PhD and MPhil in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has authored Securing India in the Cyber Era (Routledge, 2022), and co-edited two books, The Making of a Global Bharat, with Prof Harsh V Pant (Har-Anand, 2024) and Moving Forward EU-India Relations: The Significance of the Security Dialogues (Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017). 

• Dissertation Advisor, Naval War College, Goa