On 19 February, I’ll be giving a short special address at Mumbai Climate Week 2026 on blue financing for urban coastal resilience. Coastal cities like Mumbai sit on the frontlines of climate risk: rising sea levels, flooding and extreme weather are already driving recurrent economic losses. Yet financing for coastal and urban resilience remains fragmented.

In February 2026, I delivered a lecture at the VII Winter Crash Course at CECRI – the Centre for International Relations Studies at the University of Minho​ examining the blue economy as a coupled ecological–economic–political system. The discussion explored how maritime governance, strategic autonomy, and financial architecture interact in shaping development pathways across the Indo-Pacific.