Gen Vij was the 21 st Chief of the Army Staff from 31 Dec 2002 to 31 Jan 2005. He was the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) during the very successful operations by Indian Army for eviction of Pakistani Intruders in Kargil in 1999. Subsequently, he was also responsible for coordinating the withdrawal of the Pakistani troops from the War Zone.
Former Deputy National Security Advisor
C D Sahay is a Dean, Centre for Neighbourhood Studies and Internal Security Studies at VIF. He is a Former Secretary (Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat. C D Sahay joined the Indian...
Former Deputy Chief of the Army Staff & Former DGMI
Amb. Sibal has been India's Foreign Secretary from July 2002 to November 2003. He is a post-graduate from St. Stephens College, New Delhi. He has been India's Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt and...
Member NITI Aayog & Former DG, DRDO & Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister
Professor Emeritus, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University
(Former Professor of Finance, IIM Bangalore)
Prabhat Prakash Shukla was born on 29 March 1951 in New Delhi, where he also went to school and university. A good academic student, he finished his school and college education with honours, and...
Former Ambassador to France & Germany
Former C-in-C, Eastern Naval Command & Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman COSC
Former Indian Ambassador to Iran
Former Indian Ambassador to China
Lieutenant General (Retd) Gautam Banerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, was former Chief of Staff, Central Command, former Commandant of the Officers' Training Academy, Chennai. He is now Distinguished Fellow...
Chairman Prasar Bharti & Author and Scholar of Contemporary Studies
Member, National Security Advisory Board
Former Commander-in-Chief, Western Naval Command;
Former Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command;
Former Director General, Indian...
Professor & Founder Director of Delhi Institute of Heritage Research and Management
Brig Vinod Anand is a Senior Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi. He holds a post-graduate degree in Defence and Strategic Studies and is an alumnus of Defence...
Sushant Sareen did his masters in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and later qualified for the Indian Civil Service and joined the Indian Railway Traffic Service in 1993. A year later...
Former Additional DG BSF and Left Wing Extremism
Dr. Harinder Sekhon is a Senior Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation and has over three decades of research, writing and teaching experience on various aspects of Indo-US relations,...
Commodore Gopal Suri is a Senior Research Fellow in the field of National Security and Strategy who focusses on maritime security studies. His areas of study encompass the Indian Ocean and the...
Former Chairman of Microsoft India and on the boards of Rockefeller Foundation, Infosys and Strand Life sciences
Former Chief Secretary Jammu and Kashmir & Vice Chancellor Central University of Jammu & Kashmir
Former Deputy Chief of Army Staff & Advisor to DRDO
Former GOC 15 Corps & Military Secretary
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....
Adjunct Fellow, Wadhwani Chair in US India Policy Studies, CSIS
Science and Technology
Dr. Madhumita Srivastava Balaji, a student of political science is an alumna of the Benaras Hindu University Varanasi, India. She is a P.hd in Political Science and the subject of her dissertation...
Ramanand Garge is a research scholar in the field of security studies. The research areas of his interest includes counter terrorism policies framed worldwide, with prominent focus on studies...
Anushree Ghisad did her B.Tech in Chemical Technology from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur. She is presently working as a Research Associate at VIF. Her area of research includes...
Navroz Singh is a Research Intern with the Vivekananda International Foundation, focusing on the Central Asian Republics. She is a graduate with honours in Political Science from Miranda House,...
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