Prof. Vasileios Syros is an Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation (NMF), India's premier think tank for maritime research, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel (Switzerland), and a faculty member of the MSc programme in Leadership: Ethics and Politics at the University of Athens. His areas of specialization include medieval and early modern political thought, cross-cultural leadership, comparative political theory, and Indian strategic thought.