Advisory Board

Adm. Shekhar Sinha PVSM, AVSM, NM & Bar, ADC is a former Three star Admiral of the Indian Navy, was Commander in Chief of Western Naval Command. He was also Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, and a member of the Defence Acquisition Council between 2010 to 2012. During his tenure, the Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan was compiled ...

Commodore Anil Jai Singh served in the Indian Navy for over three decades as a submariner. He is also an Anti Submarine Warfare specialist from the erstwhile Soviet Union. Presently the Senior Vice President of a leading European MNC in India, he is also the Vice President of the Indian Maritime Foundation, an Honorary Adjunct Fellow and Life Membe...

The Air Marshal was commissioned as a Fighter Pilot in Jun 1984. He has over 3700 hrs of accident free flying on MiG 21 and Mirage – 2000 aircraft. He was awarded Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry) in the Kargil conflict. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College Wellington and an alumni of the National Defence College, New Delhi. He has comm...

Air Marshal Ravi Gopal Krishna Kapoor was commissioned into the Fighter stream of Indian Air Force on 07 Jun 1986. The Air Marshal is a Cat ‘A’ Qualified Flying Instructor. He is an alumnus of Defence Services Staff College and College of Air Warfare. He has flown over 5000 hours across the entire spectrum of fighter and trainer aircraft of the Ind...

Lt. Gen. Hooda was commissioned into the 4th Battalion of the 4th Gorkha Rifles in 1976. He served initially in Nagaland during the peak of insurgency. As a Major General, Hooda was responsible for counter-insurgency operations in Manipur and South Assam. Between 2012 to 2016, he was stationed in Jammu and Kashmir and ultimately retired as the Army...

Lt Gen Yogesh Kumar Joshi was commissioned into the Indian Army in June 1982 and has rendered over 40 years of illustrious service. A graduate of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune, he has done post-graduation in Defence Studies and MPhil in Strategic Leadership & National Security from Madras University. He has a working knowledge of ...

Lieutenant General A B Shivane, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd), is an NDA alumnus and a second-generation Armoured Corps officer with over 39 years of distinguished military service in key staff and command roles. He is the former Strike Corps Commander and Director General of Mechanised Forces. He also served as a Military Observer in the UN mission in Gu...

Lieutenant General PJS Pannu, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd), is a distinguished former officer of the Indian Army with a career spanning over four decades. He has held critical command roles, including leading the Leh-based 14 Corps on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and an Infantry Division on the Line of Control (LoC). As the former Deputy Chief of Int...

Dr Arun Sahgal, a retired Brigadier, is the Director of the Forum for Strategic Initiatives. He was previously the founding Director of the Office of Net Assessment at the Integrated Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence (India), and the Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation at the United Service Institution of India. His other assignments inc...

Lt Gen Rakesh Kapoor (Retd.) is an accomplished senior officer of the Indian Army and former Deputy Chief of Army Staff. He brings extensive expertise in strategy, multi-agency coordination, and leadership in complex operational environments. During his service, he spearheaded technology absorption within the Army to address evolving security cha...

Dr. Sreeram Chaulia is Professor and Dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA) and Director General of the Jindal India Institute. A leading social scientist and opinion maker on international affairs, he holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Syracuse University (USA), an MSc. in Hist...

Dr. Sriparna Pathak is a Professor of China Studies, and the founding Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University, (JGU) Haryana, India. She also serves in the capacity of a Senior Fellow, at the Jindal India Institute. Additionally, she is also an Associate Director at the Motwani Jadeja Institute of America...

Dr. Pooja Arora is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of International Studies and a policy consultant whose work navigates the crossroads of international political economy, security, emerging technologies, and strategic diplomacy. She has advised the Digital Transformations Lab at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies and work...