Dr Chime Youdon is a Research Fellow and the Head of the Blue Economy and Climate Change Cluster at the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi, India. She was the recipient of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) Fellowship (2021–2022). She is also a VAdm KK Nayyar Fellow who worked on the climate resilience of coastal urban agglomerations research project. Herresearch areas of interest include global climate change politics, climate resilience and adaptation of critical maritime infrastructure, nature-based solutions, blue economy, and sustainable development of coastal urban agglomerations. She earned her doctorate degree in Comparative Global Climate Change Policies from the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr Chime Youdon is a Research Fellow and the Head of the Blue Economy and Climate Change Cluster at the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi, India. She was the recipient of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) Fellowship (2021–2022). She is also a VAdm KK Nayyar Fellow who worked on the climate resilience of coastal urban agglomerations research project. Her research areas of interest include global climate change politics, climate resilience and adaptation of critical maritime infrastructure, nature-based solutions, blue economy, and sustainable development of coastal urban agglomerations. She earned her doctorate degree in Comparative Global Climate Change Policies from the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.