Capt Sarabjeet S Parmar (Retd)

Captain Sarabjeet S Parmar is a former Indian Navy officer who commanded two ships and a frontline anti-submarine warfare and anti-shipping helicopter squadron. He was a member of the XI Indian Antarctic Summer Expedition in 1991, attended the Management Defence Course Conducted by the British Government at Colombo in 2005, and represented the Indian Navy in the first international HOSTAC (helicopter operations from ships other than aircraft carriers) conference held at Norfolk, USA in 2008. 

He was a Research Fellow at the MP-IDSA and worked in the Indian Navy’s strategic apex level offices where – as Director Strategy – was part of the core team that published the Indian Navy’s unclassified maritime security strategy document titled Ensuring Secure Seas: Indian Maritime Security Strategy in 2015. Captain Parmar carried out regional maritime assessments and completed the doctrine development plan. He is presently a Distinguished Fellow at the United Service Institution of India, New Delhi, and Council of Strategic and Defence Research, New Delhi.