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Yash Chandan is a research intern at CNAWS and a penultimate-year BA-LLB student at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Law University, Sonepat, with a strong blend of legal and policy expertise and extensive experience in research, analysis, and international affairs. Selected as a United Nations Millennium Fellow for 2024, with multiple publications and write-ups on global governance, gender equity, and international affairs, he is keen to leverage legal training and policy expertise in research, governance, and international development opportunities.

Varda Dalal is an intern at CNAWS. She holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from Brunel University London. Her dissertation is a comparative study of intelligence failures prior to the Kargil War (India) and October 7 attacks (Israel). Varda's interests include International security, global affairs, policy and South Asian geopolitics.

Sharon Ekka is a Research Intern at CNAWS and a postgraduate scholar pursuing an MA in Diplomacy, Law and Business at the Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, with a specialisation in Indo-Pacific and East Asian affairs. She concurrently pursues an MA in Journalism and Mass Communications at Amity University. She has also served as an Editorial Intern at the Jindal Centre for Global South. Her research interests centre on contemporary maritime security, with a focus on undersea infrastructure vulnerability, unmanned naval systems, and India's strategic posture in the Indian Ocean Region.

Joshua W.J. Brown is a Toronto-based writer, filmmaker and independent researcher whose work examines what happens when technical systems, institutional rules and human use stop lining up cleanly. He writes across technology, AI governance, accessibility, public systems and Great Lakes history, with a particular interest in evidence, provenance and the design of systems that still work when the ordinary path fails.