Sujan R. Chinoy is the Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, since 3 January 2019. A career diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service from 1981-2018, he was India’s Ambassador to Japan and the Republic of the Marshall Islands from 2015-2018, and earlier, the Ambassador to Mexico and High Commissioner to Belize.
A specialist with over 25 years of experience in China, East Asia and the Asia-Pacific, he served in Indian Missions in Hong Kong Read More
Retired from IFS in 2004, he had been Ambassador of India to Morocco, and to Cuba; High Commissioner of India to Guyana; (First) Consul General at St. Petersburg (Russia); Served in Indian Missions in Saudi Arabia– as Minister / DCM; in Mauritius– as Deputy High Commissioner; and in Hong Kong, China and Japan. He has served in the Department of Atomic Energy as Director for External Relations and in the Ministry of Defence as Joint Secretary for foreign collaboration in defenRead More
Air Marshal Satish Gobind Inamdar VSM, PVSM former Vice Chief of Air Staff, was commissioned in the IAF as a fighter Pilot in Mar 63. He has flown over 3700 hours on a variety of fighter aircraft and took active part in the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak conflicts. He has commanded a Fighter Squadron, a Fighter Wing and the prestigious Aircrew Examination Board. An MSc (Defence Studies) and an AMAeSI, he is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, the Pilot Attach Instructor School, Higher ARead More
Probal Ghosh is a former SEAS Fellow and has had the rare privilege of being the lead Co-Chair and India Representative to two consecutive CSCAP International Study Groups during which two Memorandums were prepared and forwarded to the ARF. He has served in many strategic think tanks and was a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and at the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS). He is the Founder and Life Member of the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) and was its first SeniRead More
Amitabh Mattoo is currently Dean of School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Professor of Disarmament studies at the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies. His teaching and research interests include issues of international security, India’s foreign policy, and arms control and disarmament. Mattoo has been visiting Professor at the Centre for International Security and CooperationRead More
Dr Roshan Khanijo is the Assistant Director (Research) at the Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation (CS3), USI, New Delhi. Her academic qualification includes BSc, MA and Ph.D. She is a strategic analyst. Her areas of focus include Security, Nuclear Issues, Indo-Pacific Region, the nuclear and conventional weapons programme of Nuclear Weapon States, Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control, Niche Technologies-BMD, HGV etc. She has also done ‘Net Assessment studies’ where she assRead More
Dinesh Kumar Yadvendra is a former Scientific Advisor to the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff HQ IDS Ministry of Defence New Delhi . As an advisor he has been involved with Policy, Planning & Force Development issues including the Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan . He has been actively associated with strategic studies and analysis including space security issues and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Space Policy Institute , Elliott School of International Affairs, George WashingtoRead More
