Dr Chime Youdon is an Associate Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, India. Her work focuses on the issues of climate resilience and adaptation of critical maritime infrastructure, sustainable development of coastal urban agglomerations, blue economy, and global climate change politics. Currently she holds the CDRI Fellowship (2021-22) at the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, for which she is working on the project, ‘Incorporating Infrastructural Resilience in India’s Port-led Development Model’. She also holds the VAdm K.K. Nayyar Fellowship at the National Maritime Foundation where she is working on climate resilience of coastal urban agglomerations. She has done her PhD from the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.