Sameer Patil is Director, Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation. Based out of ORF’s Mumbai centre, his work focuses on the intersection of technology and national security, including cybersecurity. Additionally, he researches India’s national security priorities, counter-terrorism, and regional security. He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity and RUSI UK’s Global Partnership for Responsible Cyber Behaviour Advisory Board. He is also the dissertation advisor at the Naval War College, Goa.

Dr Patil has previously worked at the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India and Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. 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).