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...
C D Sahay is a Distinguished Fellow at VIF. He is a Former Secretary (Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat. C D Sahay joined the Indian Police Service in 1967 and moved to Delhi in...
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...
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...
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...
Vice Admiral Raman Puri retired as the Chief of Integrated Service Command (CISC) in 2006 after a distinguished service of 40 years in the Indian Navy. Adm. Puri served in a number of important...
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...
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...
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...
Commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1975, Vice Admiral Chopra rendered forty years of distinguished service , retiring in 2015. He has the unique distinction of having been the Commander-in-...
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...
Shri G. Mohan Kumar is a former Defence Secretary and Secretary defence production to the Government of India .He joined the Indian Administrative Service (Odisha Cadre) in1979 and retired in...
Amit Cowshish retired from the Indian Defence Accounts Service in 2012 after serving for thirty five years in various capacities in the Defence Accounts Department. He served on deputation with...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Prof. Shashiprabha Kumar is presently Dean, Sri Sankaracharya Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi. Earlier she was Founder Vice Chancellor at Sanchi University of Buddhist-...
P S Raghavan was, from 2016 to 2020, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), which advises India’s National Security Council on strategic and security issues. He engaged on these...
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...