Strategic Security

Anis Pankhania joins Capgemini as Senior Director – Security Operations & Compliance, Managed Services, CIS India. Prior to this, he was Head – Security Compliance & Data Privacy at Vodafone Idea Ltd; Overall, he was associated with Vodafone for the last 8 years.  Pankhania had also served in various leadership and managerial positions at companies…

Rear Admiral Amit Vikram(Retd), our campus director  is a  veteran naval officer with rich and varied experience in Training and Development for over 35 years in Indian Navy. Having developed competencies in training functions through service in Western, Eastern and Southern Naval Command Headquarters as well as Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence (Navy); attained rounded experience…

Addl DG (CG) Vijay D Chafekar (Retd) did his M.Sc. from Pune University.  He  Joined Indian Police Service in 1973, allotted to the State of Maharashtra; on deputation to Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi for 22 years; specialized in International Communism, Islamic fundamentalism and transnational organized crime/ terrorism; worked as Commissioner, Special Bureau, Mumbai and participated in…

M.Sc. from Pune University; Diplomas in Russian and French languages;  Joined Indian Police Service in 1973, allotted to the State of Maharashtra; on deputation to Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi for 22 years; specialized in International Communism, Islamic fundamentalism and transnational organized crime/ terrorism; worked as Commissioner, Special Bureau, Mumbai and participated in investigations of the 1993…

Arun Ramchandani joined L&T as a Graduate Engineer in 1984 after completing his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Delhi. He started his career in R&D at L&T and went on to head the R&D for L&T Defence before taking on his current assignment as Executive Vice President, Defence & Aerospace SBG. He has worked…

Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar, AVSM, NM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Commandant of the National Defence Academy. He last served as the Project Director (Operations and Training) in the ATV Project Headquarters. He earlier served as the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet and prior to that…

Lieutenant General D. B. Shekatkar PVSM, AVSM, VSM is a retired Indian army officer. He was commissioned on 30 June 1963 into the Maratha Light Infantry. He is currently the chancellor of Sikkim Central University. Shekatkar Committee was formed by centre under ministry of defence to suggest steps for enhancing combat capability of the armed…

Ambassador Raj Kumar Srivastava is a career diplomat who joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1997. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has pursued further studies in Structural Engineering and Earthquake Sciences. Mr. Srivastava has served in Indian Embassies in Madrid (Spain), Yangon (Myanmar), Vienna (Austria),…

Lieutenant General Vinod G. Khandare, PVSM, AVSM, SM is a former officer of the Indian Army and is currently serving as the Principal Adviser in the Ministry of Defence. He retired from active military service on 31 January 2018 and was the Military Advisor to the National Security Council Secretariat of India at the Secretary…

H.E. Mr. Jawed Ashraf assumed charge as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of France and Principality of Monaco on July 13, 2020. A career diplomat, H.E. Mr. Jawed Ashraf joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1991. He served in Frankfurt and Berlin from 1993 to 1999. He thereafter worked at the Americas Division…