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NIAS Polar and Ocean Studies Dialogue

NIAS-MEA First Annual Polar Dialogue

30 August 2024

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)

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