Dilip K. Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University. He is the first person to hold professorship in the field of ancient...
Prof. ShashiPrabha Kumar is currently the Chairperson, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; a Distinguished Fellow of Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi and Dean, Sri...
Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat is former Secretary of Defence (Research & Development- R&D) and former chief of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO). He was the key scientist...
Dr. Gulshan Rai was India’s first National Cyber Security Coordinator , Govt of India and based at the office of the Prime Minister. Earlier, he handled different responsibilities at Meity and...
Ambassador Asoke Mukerji served in the Indian Foreign Service for more than 37 years, retiring as India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in December 2015...
Amb P S Raghavan is Chairman of National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), which advises India’s National Security Council on strategic and security issues.
Ambassador D.B.Venkatesh Varma served in the Indian Foreign Service from 1988 to 2021. During his diplomatic career, he worked in the Office of the External Affairs Minister and in the Prime...
Amb (Retd) TCA Rangachari, was India's Ambassador to Algeria, France and Germany before resigning from the Indian Foreign Service in 2006. Earlier, he spent over five years in Islamabad, Pakistan...
Founder Vice-Chancellor, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi; presently, Chairman, NBA, MHRD, New Delhi. Prof. K.K. Aggarwal was the chairman of The VIF Task Force Report on Towards More...
Ashok K Kantha is a Distinguished Fellow at Vivekananda International Foundation. He was Ambassador of India to China until January 2016. Prior to this, he was Secretary (East) at Ministry of...
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma was commissioned in Gorkha Rifles in 1977, and had a career spanning forty years in the Army. He has had extensive operational experience in Jammu and Kashmir, North...
Ambassador Anil Wadhwa has been a member of the Indian foreign service from July 1979 till may 2017. In this 37 year career with the Indian foreign service he has been ambassador of India to Italy...
Arun K. Singh was India’s Ambassador to the United States (2015-2016), France (2013-2015) and Israel (2005-2008). He was also involved for nearly a decade in the formulation and implementation of...
Hari Babu Srivastava, DSchc, is currently Professor of Practice at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Visiting Professor of Practice at Indian Institutes of Technology Kanpur and Roorkee. He...
Prof. Sujit Dutta, is a Distinguished Fellow and the Editor of the quarterly journal, National Security at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. .
Lt Gen Anil Ahuja, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM & Bar, superannuated in August 2016, is a former Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Policy Planning and Force Development). He has...
Mr. D.P. Singh has 27 years of varied experience representing the Government, the public sector as well as private entities. He is now the Founder & Senior Partner of the firm Arthe Law. Mr....
Srikanth Kondapalli is Professor in Chinese Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was Chairman of the Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, JNU from 2008-10, 2012-14, 2016-18 and 2018-20. He is...
Dr. J.R. Bhatt is an internationally recognized expert on various facets of environment, prominently climate change and biodiversity. As a lead negotiator, he regularly represented India,...
Amb. Anil Trigunayat is a member of the Indian Foreign Service. He has served in the Indian Missions in Cote d’Ivoire, Bangladesh, Mongolia, USA, Russia, Sweden and Nigeria, Libya and Jordan. In...
Presently he is a Distinguished Fellow at Vivekananda International Foundation. He was the Indian Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran (2011-15). During his tenure, he led negotiations on...
Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury, PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, is a former Commandant of the National Defence College, New Delhi. An experienced pilot with over 5000 sorties on fighters, he has commanded a...
