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30 November 1999

National Institute of Advanced Studies

NIAS-MEA First Annual Polar Dialogue

National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru

In collaboration with

Policy Planning and Research Division, Ministry of External Affairs

30 August 2024, Friday | Venue: NIAS Auditorium

Programme

1700-1830 hrs: Inaugural Session

Welcome Notes
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

Keynote Address
1720-1735 hrs: Mr Tanmaya Lal, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of
India

1735-1750 hrs: Dr M Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India
Inaugural Addresses

1750-1805 hrs: Amb PS Raghavan, Chairperson, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB),
Government of India

1805-1820 hrs: 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
Panel

• 0945-0955 hrs: Dr PS Goel, Former Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences

• 0955-1005 hrs: Dr Manish Tiwari, Group Director, Arctic Operations, National Centre for
Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa

• 1005-1015 hrs: 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

1100-1130 hrs: Tea

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

Panel
• 1145-1155 hrs: Dr Andreas Raspotnik, Senior Researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
(Lysaker, Norway) & Senior Researcher, High North Center for Business and Governance,
Nord University, Norway

• 1155-1205 hrs: Dr Kamrul Hossain, Professor and Director, NIEM, Arctic Centre,
University of Lapland, Finland

• 1205-1215 hrs: Dr Stuti Banerjee, Research Fellow, Indian Council of World Affairs
(ICWA), New Delhi

• 1215-1225 hrs: 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
Panel

• 1415-1425 hrs: Dr Shailesh Nayak, Director, NIAS

• 1425-1435 hrs: Dr Uttam Kumar Sinha, Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for
Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi

• 1435-1445 hrs: Cmde S Muthu Krishnan, Directing Staff, Arctic Studies, Naval War
College, Goa

• 1445-1455 hrs: 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)

1600 hrs: Tea

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