Dr Sameer Patil
Deputy Director, ORF Mumbai
Biography
Global Partnership for Responsible Cyber Behaviour Advisory Board Member
Dr Sameer Patil is Director, Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). His work focuses on the intersection of technology and national security, including cybersecurity. In addition, he serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity and RUSI's Global Partnership for Responsible Cyber Behaviour Advisory Board. He is also the dissertation advisor at the Naval War College, Goa. He has previously worked at the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India and Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations.
Dr Patil has PhD and MPhil in international politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Securing India in the Cyber Era (Routledge, 2022) and has co-edited The Making of a Global Bharat (Har-Anand, 2024) and Moving Forward EU-India Relations: The Significance of the Security Dialogues (Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017).