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NIAS Polar and Ocean Studies Dialogue
National Institute of Advanced Studies
NIAS-MEA First Annual Polar Dialogue
NIAS Global Politics, Polar and Ocean Studies
National Institute of Advanced Studies
In collaboration with
Policy and Planning Division
Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India
30 August 2024, Friday | Venue: NIAS Auditorium
Programme
1630-1700 hrs: Tea
1700-1830 hrs: Inaugural Session
Welcome and Introduction
1700-1720 hrs: Prof Shailesh Nayak¸ Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) &
Mr S Raghuram, Joint Secretary, PP&RD, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
1720-1805 hrs: Keynote Address
Mr Tanmaya Lal, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of
India
Dr M Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India
Inaugural Addresses
Amb PS Raghavan, Chairperson, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB),
Government of India
HE Ms May-Elin Stener, Ambassador of Norway to India
1820-1855 hrs: Discussion
1855-1900 hrs: Vote of Thanks
1900-1930 hrs: Release of Indo-Arctic and Inauguration of Young Scholars’ Poster Workshop on
Polar Regions
“Indo-Arctic”: Release of the Inaugural Issue of NIAS Monthly on the Polar Regions
&
"Young India and the Polar": Inauguration of the Poster Workshop on the Polar Regions by
Young Scholars
1930 hrs: Dinner
31 August 2024, Saturday
Venue: NIAS Auditorium
0930-1100 hrs: Session-I
Climate Change, S&T and Polar Regions
Moderator: Rear Admiral (retd) Monty Khanna, Former Assistant Military Adviser, National
Security Council Secretariat (NSCS)
0930-0945 hrs: Keynote address
Dr Thamban Meloth, Director, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa
0945-1015 hrs: Panel
Dr PS Goel, Former Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences
Dr Manish Tiwari, Group Director, Arctic Operations, National Centre for
Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa
Prof Gufran Beig, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Chair Professor, National
Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)
1015-1055: Discussions
1055-1100 hrs: Concluding remarks by the moderator
1130-1300 hrs: Session-II
Polar Regions and International Frameworks
Moderator: Prof D Suba Chandran, Dean and Professor, School of Conflict and Security Studies,
National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)
1130-1145 hrs: Keynote address
Rear Admiral TVN Prasanna, VSM, Joint Secretary (Maritime Security - Indo Pacific), National
Security Council, Government of India, New Delhi
1145-1225 hrs: Panel
Dr Andreas Raspotnik, Senior Researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
(Lysaker, Norway) & Senior Researcher, High North Center for Business and Governance,
Nord University, Norway
Dr Kamrul Hossain, Professor and Director, NIEM, Arctic Centre,
University of Lapland, Finland
Dr Stuti Banerjee, Research Fellow, Indian Council of World Affairs
(ICWA), New Delhi
Ms Rashmi Ramesh, Doctoral candidate, National Institute of Advanced
Studies (NIAS) & Arctic PASSION Ambassador (2023-24), Bengaluru
1225-1255: Discussions
1255-1300 hrs: Concluding remarks by the moderator
1300-1400 hrs: Lunch
1400-1530 hrs: Session-III
India and the Polar: The Road Ahead
Moderator: Dr Rajoo Balaji, Pro-VC, Indian Maritime University, Chennai
1400-1415 hrs: Keynote address
Amb Venkatesh Varma, Former Indian Ambassador to Russia
1415-1455 hrs: Panel
Dr Shailesh Nayak, Director, NIAS
Dr Uttam Kumar Sinha, Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for
Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi
Cmde S Muthu Krishnan, Directing Staff, Arctic Studies, Naval War
College, Goa
Dr Mahesh Mohan, Centre for Polar Studies, Mahatma Gandhi
University, Kottayam
1455-1525 hrs: Discussions
1525-1530 hrs: Concluding remarks by the moderator
1530-1600 hrs: Session-IV
Concluding Session
Creation of “Indo-Arctic Network”
&
Concluding Remarks
Ms Shivani Jhirwal, Under Secretary, Policy Planning and Research Division
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
&
Prof Shailesh Nayak¸ Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)