Rear Admiral Sudarshan Y. Shrikhande , AVSM, IN (Retd)

RADM Shrikhande is a 1979 graduate of the National Defence Academy. His qualifications include a Masters in Weapon and Sonar Engineering from the Soviet Naval War College (1985-88), an MSc from Indian Staff College (1995), an MPhil from the Indian Naval War College and the highest distinction from the US Naval War College (2003). He has submitted his PhD thesis in sea-based nuclear deterrence to Mumbai University. He has commanded three ships and been a defence attaché in Australia and the South Pacific. Ashore has held a variety of operational and training assignments. In flag rank, he was chief of Naval Intelligence, Chief of Staff SNC, Joint HQ staff duties and in the nuclear forces command, Flag Officer Doctrines and Concepts. In retirement since 2016, he teaches at several institutions, including NDC, Staff and War colleges, spanning strategy, operational art, RMA, Peloponnesian War, Indo-Pacific geopolitics, leadership and ethics. He has participated in Track 2 discussions with some countries, in various national/international conferences and workshops, and written for national and international journals. He is an adjunct professor at the Naval War College, Goa, and an Honorary Senior Fellow with ANCORS, Wollongong. From July 2024 to January 2025, he was an inaugural Maitri Fellow at ANCORS, researching cooperative maritime physical and digital trade protection.