Integrated Maritime Security: Governing the Ghost Protocol

Prabhakaran Paleri was with the Indian Coast Guard since its early days. He retied on 31 August 2006 as its director general. He served in the executive branch of the Indian Navy and the Customs Marine organization under the Ministry of Finance prior to absorption in the coast guard. He holds a multi-disciplinary Ph.D. degree in Business Administration, and defence and Strategic studies. A graduate in engineering, he is also a postgraduate in Business Administration from the University of Madras, and in National Security Strategy from the National defece University, Washington, D.C. He is a fellow of the Narotham Morarjee Institute of Shipping in Shipping Management. He has published several papers of strategic and maritime interest, and also represented India in various national and international forums on maritime AND ALLIED SUBJECTS. Currently he is pursuing research on strategic studies while freelancing as an author and speaker on related topics.