Sanjay Chaturvedi

Sanjay Chaturvedi is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He specializes in the theories and practices of Geopolitics and IR, with special reference to Polar Regions and the Indian Ocean Region. Author of Polar Regions: A Political Geography (John Wiley & Sons, 1993), Chaturvedi is the co-author of Partitions: Reshaping Minds and States (Routledge, 2005, with Ranabir Samaddar, Rada Ivekovich and Stefano Bianchini); and co-editor ofEnvironmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans: Struggles and Innovations in China and India (Springer, 2016, with Shikui Dong and Jayanta Bandyopadhyay), Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism, and Security in the Indian Ocean (Routledge Revivals, 2015, with Dennis Rumley); Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region (Routledge Revivals, 2015, with Dennis Rumley); The Security of Sea Lanes of Communication in the Indian Ocean Region (Routledge Revivals, 2015, with Dennis Rumley and Mat Taib); and Euro-Asia at the Crossroads: Geopolitics, Identities and Discourse (New Delhi: Shipra Publications, 2011, with Jyrki Kakonen and Anita Sengupta). His most recent co-authored books are: Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan 2015, with Timothy Doyle) and Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal: Emerging Geographies of Hope and Fear (ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, 2015, with Vijay Sakhuja).

Chaturvedihas been a member of the Steering Committee of the IGU Commission on Political Geography (2004-2012) and the Co-Chair of Research Committee on Political and Cultural Geography (RC 15) of International Political Science Association (2006-2012). He is serving on the Executive Committee of SCAR Antarctic Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group (ex-officio) since its inception in 2010, representing the discipline of Geopolitics.A member of the Core Group of Experts on Antarctica and Southern Ocean, set up by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, he has served on the Indian delegation to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings since 2007

Editor-in-Chief of Panjab University Research Journal (Social Sciences), Chaturvedi is the Co-Editor ofJournal of Indian Ocean Region (Routledge) and Regional Editor ofThe Polar Journal (Routledge). Heis also the editorial/advisory board member of Geopolitics (Routledge), Co-operation and Conflict (Sage), India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs (Sage), Journal of Global Faultlines (Pluto) and The Journal of Borderland Studies (Routledge).

Chaturvedi was awarded the Nehru Centenary British Fellowship, followed by a highly coveted Leverhulme Trust Research Grant, to pursue his post-doctoral research at Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England, from 1992 to 1995. Chaturvedi is recipient of several visiting professorships and fellowships abroad including Curtin University, Australia; University of Wurzburg, Germany under ‘A New Passage to India’ of DAAD (June-July 2016 & 2015); India-China Institute, The New School, USA (2010-13); The University of Adelaide, Australia; University of Cambridge, England (1992-95); ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore (2010-2012);Department of Geography at University of Durham, U.K.; Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Reid Hall, Paris (under International Program of Advanced Studies); Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia; Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (under Distinguished Visitors Program); and Henry L. Stimson Centre, Washington D.C., USA.

Chaturvedi has also been a Visiting Speaker at the National Defence College and Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi.He is a member of he Knowledge, Learning, And Societal Change Alliance (KLASICA), a global, impact-driven research and policy network for collective behaviour change for sustainable futures, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. More recently, he has been invited to serve on the Selection Committee of the Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica, an annual USD $100,000 unrestricted prize awarded to an individual who has demonstrated excellence in Antarctic science and/or policy.