Indian Foreign Service (1979; Retired);
Career
Presently Director, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a New Delhi-based think tank on strategic and international security affairs
C D Sahay is a Senior Fellow & Centre Head for Neighbourhood Studies and Internal Security Studies at VIF. He is a Former Secretary (Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat. C D Sahay...
Lt Gen Ravi Sawhney retired as the Deputy Chief of the Army Staff. He is a post graduate in Defence and Security Planning from the Royal College of Defence Studies, London prior to which he...
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 Senior Fellow &...
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...
Professor Emeritus, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University
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...
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...
Professor Emeritus, Delhi University, Ecologist and Environmentalist.
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...
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...
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...
Vice Admiral Anil Chopra, Distinguished Fellow, VIF. He is a former Commander-in-Chief of both the operational commands of the Indian Navy i.e. the Western Naval Command, and the Eastern Naval...
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...
Former GOC 15 Corps & Military Secretary
Former Deputy Chief of Army Staff & Advisor to DRDO
(Former SOin-C) (Cyber Security)
(Former DG, Air Defence, Indian Army) (Higher Defence Analyst)
Lt Gen Anil Ahuja (Retd), PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM & BAR superannuated recently as the Deputy Chief of the Integrated Defense Staff (Policy Planning and Force development)
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....
Presently he is Senior Fellow & Cluster Leader at Vivekananda International Foundation. He was Indian Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran (2011-15). During his tenure, he led...
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...
Professor, Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
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...
RNP Singh is former Director of India First Foundation, New Delhi and Managing Editor of two widely acclaimed Journals Eaternal India and Chirantan Bharat (Hindi). RNP Singh has written number of...
Dr Sreeradha Datta is Senior Fellow, Vivekananda International Foundation. Formerly director, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata during September 2011-August 2017. Her...
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,...
Somen Banerjee is a naval officer and specializes in Anti-submarine warfare. He has been involved in Indian naval plans and procurement and is a commentator on maritime issues, especially with...
Dr. Teshu Singh is an Associate Fellow with Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi. Previously, she was working with Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi. Her...
Dr. Arpita Mitra has a doctoral degree in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been a Fellow (2015-2017) at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, where she has...
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...
Kapil Patil is Associate Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi. His research focuses on nuclear energy, WMD-proliferation, science, technology &national security-...
Ms. Gunjan Singh is an Associate Fellow at the VIF since February 2018. Previously she has worked with the Indian Pugwash Society and with Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New...
Prerna Gandhi is a Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation with a focus on Japan, ASEAN and Korean Peninsula. She is currently a doctoral student at Dept. of East Asian...
Neha Sinha is working as a Research Associate in VIF. She did her Graduation and Masters in Political Science from Delhi University. She has a specialisation in the African region and has pursued...
Prateek Joshi is a researcher working on Trans-Himalayan Geopolitics, Pakistani politics and Sino-Indian conflict. Prior to joining VIF, he was working on a project with the Institute of Defence...
Aayush holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Delhi University and completed his Master's in Conflict Analysis and Peace-building from Jamia Millia Islamia. Previously worked as a...
Tilak Devasher is the author of the widely acclaimed book ‘Pakistan: Courting the Abyss’ published by Harper Collins India in December 2016. It has been described by a noted Pakistani intellectual...
An Electronics and Tele Communication Engineering graduate from B E College, Shibpur, M Tech from IIT, Kharagpur and Fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Maj...
Abhigya Langeh is a research intern with the Vivekananda International Foundation in Delhi. She has a strong interest in and writes on international relations, regional politics and state politics...
Pursuing PhD in Indo-Pacific Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University. Visiting scholar to University of Malaya. Has previously worked on the China factor in India-Australia relations, India-ASEAN...
Akash Sahu is a research intern working at VIF since January, 2018. A graduate in journalism from the University of Mumbai, he has interest in international reporting, analysis and matters of...
Ankit Singh is a research intern with the Vivekananda International Foundation in Delhi. He has interest in international relations and governance issues.
He has done his Post graduation...
The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) is a New Delhi-based think tank set up with the collaborative efforts of India's leading security experts, diplomats, industrialists and philanthropists under the aegis of the Vivekananda Kendra. The VIF’s objective is to become a centre of excellence to kick start innovative ideas and thoughts that can lead ...
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