Arvind Gupta takes over as Director General of IDSA

Dr Arvind Gupta, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1979 batch, assumed charge as the Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) here today.

 

Gupta currently holds the rank of Additional Secretary to the Government of India and is on deputation to the IDSA.

 

He has worked in the Ministry of External Affairs in different capacities and served in the Indian missions in Moscow, London and Ankara.

 

Before taking up his new assignment, Gupta held the Lal Bahadur Shastri Chair on National Security at IDSA from 2008 to 2011.

 

Prior to joining the IDSA, he was Joint Secretary at the National Security Council Secretariat from 1999 to 2007. During his tenure at the NSCS he dealt with a wide range of international and national security issues and participated in the various working groups and task forces set up by the NSC. He also worked with the Kargil Review Committee.

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At the IDSA he headed the South Asia and Internal Security Clusters and edits the Institute’s flagship bi-monthly journal: Strategic Analysis.

 

His current interests include the impact of globalization on India’s security, foreign policy, diplomatic challenges before India; energy security, climate change, India’s neighbours, internal security and technology & security issues.

 

He has three books, several edited books and a number of academic publications to his credit. He has been a member of several task forces on issues such as space security, climate change, cyber security, nuclear disarmament and so on.

 

NNN

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