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DR. PRAKASH GOPAL
Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources &
Security (ANCORS), Australia
Dr. Gopal is a PhD candidate at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources
and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia since July 2018. A
former Indian naval officer, Gopal has significant experience in maritime security
operations in the Indo-Pacific, and in maritime policy/strategy formulation. He has
served on a range of frontline ships as a surface warfare officer, and has commanded
an anti-submarine corvette based at Mumbai. In the latter part of his naval career,
Prakash was involved in policy formulation as a Joint Director at the Indian naval
headquarters, and went on to serve as naval advisor to the head of the Indian
Coast Guard. Prior to his transition out of the navy, he was a Research Fellow at
the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi and visiting faculty at the Foreign
Services Institute of India. His primary research interests lie in India’s maritime
security imperatives, international maritime cooperation and maritime domain
awareness in the Indo-Pacific. He is an alumnus of the Australian Command and
Staff College, Canberra, and has Masters Degrees in both science and humanities.
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