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
Commentaries
The great potential of India-Australia quantum collaboration
The military’s continuing hold over Pakistan
A spymaster who now has the Pakistan Army’s reins
India’s G-20 Presidency Is a Golden Opportunity
Challenges Galore for the New CDS
ISKP is a mounting threat to India’s regional security
Carving out space for Indo-Canadian security cooperation
Ukraine sanctions stress test US–India relations
With Imran Khan ousted, Pakistan Army will have a salient role in Islamabad
Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s downfall is unlikely to change India-Pakistan ties
How India is trying to tackle China’s military challenge
India’s Strategy towards Post-August 2021 Afghanistan