Dr. Sameer Patil is a Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai. His work focuses on the intersection of technology and national security, including cyber security. He also researches India’s national security priorities, counter-terrorism, and regional security. Dr. Patil has previously worked at the National Security Council Secretariat (2008-2013) and Gateway House, a foreign policy think tank in Mumbai (2013-2021). He is the author of Securing India in the Cyber Era (Routledge, 2022). Dr. Patil has done Ph.D. and M.Phil. in international politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Patil has participated in several Track 1 and Track 1.5 dialogues, including India-U.S. and India-U.K. Strategic Intelligence Dialogues, after the 2008 Mumbai attacks and India-U.K. Track 1.5 Cyber Dialogue. In 2019, he received the prestigious Canberra Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia.