Prabhakaran Paleri was a formal director general of Indian Coast Guard with naval, customs and corporate background. He is an alumnus of the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., (Hall of Fame). He has researched and authored various books and papers on strategic and corporate subjects. Presently he is an academician, researcher and discussant in his fields of expertise and interests including governance by national security, the term he examines in this study. His previous book for Springer was
Human Investment Management: Raise the Level by Capitalising Human (2017).
He lives in Kozhikode, Kerala, India.