POLICE FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE - Key Persons

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• Member of the Executive Committee

Air Marshal M Matheswaran was the Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) at Head Quarters, IDS until his retirement 0n 31 Mar 2014. He was responsible for Policy, Plans and Force Structure development of the Three Services, including budget analysis, Acquisition, procurement and technology management. He was responsible for formulating the long-term and short-term integrated defence plans. Air Marshal M Matheswaran was commissioned in 1975.

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• Chairman
• Chairman of the Executive Committee
• Chairman, Delhi Urban Art Commission

Ajit Pai is Chairman, Delhi Urban Art Commission, and Strategy Lead Partner for Government and Public Sector at EY's Strategy and Transactions group. Prior to this, he was Distinguished Expert, NITI Aayog, where he headed Economics & Finance, oversaw Public Disinvestment and Public Enterprises., was Consultant to the Vice Chairperson, and handled matters related to the World Bank, IFC, IMF, ADB, NDB, OECD, and the G20. Previously, he had a career in the private sector including working internationally at firms like McKinsey, Lazard, Thomas Weisel Partners and Stifel Financial, the latter two as Managing Director. He has been awarded over six years a record five #1 Starmine Awards in the Forbes/Financial Times World's Best Analysts Survey for forecast accuracy. Mr. Pai holds a B.Arch. from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, a M.Arch. from the Yale School of Architecture and a MBA from the Yale School of Management. He attended Yale University as a Tata Scholar and also served as a John M Olin Fellow for research in markets and regulatory behavior. His active interests include Architecture, Design, Anthropology, Urbanism, Planning, History, Economic Development, Sustainability, Horticulture, Finance, Technology, Policy, and Governance. He is on the Advisory Board of the Future Institute, and is registered with the Council of Architecture.

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• VICE CHAIRMAN of the Executive Committee
• VICE CHAIRMAN Former DGP Maharashtra

Anami Narayan Roy is a distinguished former civil servant, having served in the Indian Police Service in Maharashtra and Govt of India for over 38 years. He held a wide variety assignments both in Maharashtra and the Central govt including Commissioner of Police, Aurangabad, Pune and Mumbai and retired as Director General of Police, Maharashtra, commanding a 2,25,000 strong Force . While in Govt of India, he headed the operations of the elite Special Protection Group, looking after proximate security of Prime Minister, former PMs and their families, in which capacity he travelled extensively within India and overseas and interacted with the forces and governments of many foreign countries around the world. Known popularly as the People's Commissioner, he set up many citizen-friendly schemes and systems to resolve and fulfil people's problems and expectations like Citizen Facilitation Centres in Police Commissioner's office and later in all Police stations where all requirements of people from Police were dealt with in transparent, time-bound and hassle-free manner, Mumbai Police Infoline for giving all information from and about Police through a toll-free number, Elderline for senior citizens, Slum Police Panchayat etc. He was appointed Advisor to the Governor of Andhra Pradesh when the state was under President's rule in 2014. In that capacity, he discharged effectively the responsibilities as a Minister of many departments of the state like Home, Industry and Commerce, Housing, PWD, Health, Medical Education, Social Welfare. He also dealt with the separation of Andhra Pradesh in two states AP and Telangana and supervised the General Elections of 2014 in both states. Post retirement, Roy is engaged in the social/non-profit sector, he runs a not-for-profit company Vandana Foundation under section 8 Companies Act, for supporting people at the bottom of the pyramid with livelihood. Vandana Foundation helps widows of farmers who committed suicide in three districts of Vidarbha Wardha, Yavatmal and Amaravati to make them financially independent through micro-enterprise. He is on the Board of Directors of some prominent companies like HDFC Bank, Glaxo Pharma, BHEL and some others. He is also involved in many other companies in Advisory capacity, on the India Advisory Board of Encore Capital Group of USA, TrueNorth Private Equity Fund. He brings with him a wide and rich experience of public service, functioning of governments at the state and central level and of his association with the corporate world.

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• Member of the Executive Committee

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Columnist and Writer
• General Council

Aparna Piramal Raje writes regularly on business and design, workplaces, cities and urbanization. Her first book, Working Out of the Box: 40 stories of leading CEOs was published by Penguin Random House in September 2015. The book is based on Head Office, her popular monthly column in the Mint, which features the heads of organizations, and looks at leadership through the lens of workspaces and workstyles. Over 60 CEOs from India and overseas have been profiled in the series to date. She also writes on urbanization, and has written several series of stories, featuring global thinkers and highlighting solutions to urban challenges, by looking at the intersection of urban planning, market forces and government policy. Aparna has contributed to the UK's Financial Times Weekend, a leading global publication, is regularly invited to address diverse audiences on the subject of business and design and has conducted workshops on these subjects with students from both business and design schools. Design for social impact is a particular interest area. Currently involved with a non-profit ARMMAN, in the area of technology for maternal and child health, Aparna is committed to supporting gender equity and has previously led professional women's networks. Former CEO, BP Ergo, one of India's largest modular office furniture companies, Aparna completed an MBA from Harvard Business School and read Economics, Politics and Philosophy at Oxford University.

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• Member of the Lokpal of India Former DG, SSB

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, Bloomington ( USA )

Arvind Verma has been a member in the Indian Police Service [IPS] and has served for many years in the State of Bihar, holding several senior positions in the organization. His first degree was in Engineering Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur and later he earned his PhD in Criminology from Simon Fraser University- Canada. His doctoral work was concerned with the analysis of criminal justice data using a variety of mathematical techniques such as Fuzzy Logic, Topology and Fractals. He has served as the Managing Editor of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal and he has also been an advisor to the Bureau of Police Research and Development in India. His current research interests are in Policing; Criminal Justice Policy Issues, Indian Police, Research Methods, Mathematical Modeling, and Agent-Based Simulation. His recent publications include books titled "Policing Muslim Communities: Comparative and International Context" {Springer}; "The New Khaki: The Evolving Nature of Policing in India" {CRC Press}, "Understanding the Police in India" [2nd Edition 2013 Lexus] and journal articles, "Situational Prevention & Elections in India" "Measuring Performance in India: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis", "The State and Coercive Power in India", "Rationalizing Police Beats using Voronoi Tessellations"; "Validating Distance Decay through Agent-Based Modeling" and "Assessing the Role of Police in Containing Mob Violence" and "Police Manipulation of Crime Reporting: Insider's Revelations". His current book projects include "Police Commissioner vs. the DM System: A Comparative Measure of Police Performance" and "Combating Corruption in India". He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University- Bloomington.

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• Chairman of the Executive Committee
• Chairman of Housing Development Housing Development Finance Corporation
• Chairman, HDFC

Deepak Parekh is the Chairman of Housing Development Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC). He has won several awards including Businessman of the Year 1996 from Business India. Padma Bhushan was conferred on him by the Government of India. Mr. Parekh is the youngest recipient of the prestigious Corporate Award for Life Time Achievement by the Economic Times. In 2010 he was the first international recipient of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales' Outstanding Achievement Award, for his contribution to the finance and accountancy profession.

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• Member of the Executive Committee

Dr. Ish Kumar has dedicated 33 years of his service in the Police department. He has worked in the states of Manipur, Andhra Pradesh & Telangana for 24 years and in Government of India for 9 years. His educational qualifications involve M.Sc, Plant Breeding & Genetics; Ph.D, Genetics; P.G. Diploma, Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law & Refugees Law. His expertise lies in security, law & order, scientific investigation, community policing, human rights enforcement, human resources development and capacity building. He has served as the Director of NationaI Crime Records Bureau Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi; Director, RBVRR Tetangana State Potice Academy Tetangana State Police, Hyderabad; Addt. Director General of Police,TechnicaI Services AP Police, Hyderabad; Inspector General of Police; Superintendent of Police, among many others. He has been the recipient of several awards such as President Police Medal for Distinguished Service (PPM) -2011 (Covt. of India), Internal Security Service Medal (ISM) - 2004, and Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service (lPM) -2002

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• IPS Officer

Dr. Anand Prakash Maheshwari, is an IPS officer of 1984 batch, Uttar Pradesh cadre. His professional career as a soldier and policeman culminated as the Head of the largest paramilitary force in the world - The Central Reserve Police Force. He was posted as Special Secretary (Internal Security) in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Post retirement, he was appointed as the Advisor to Hon'ble Lieutenant Governor, Puducherry. Education: An alumnus of Sri Ram College of Commerce, Maheshwari post graduated as MBA, ACS and ACWA before getting inducted into IPS. He has Doctorate (Ph.D) in Sociology on the subject ‘Management of Communal Violence-Social Conflict Resolution'. He had a rich and varied training profile which includes top-notch institutions like London Business School, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, National Police Academy, IIM, IIT, IIPA, FICCI and CBI Career:Uttar Pradesh Police Chief in towns of Moradabad, Kanpur, Allahabad and Gorakhpur and also headed Law & Order as well as Vigilance wings of UP Police. Worked in Intelligence, Security, Economic Offences, CID, Training & Human Rights divisions of the State Police. Worked with CRPF on counter insurgency grids of Assam, Kashmir and the states affected by left wing extremism and BSF as ADG, BSF Academy/Training and SDG Operations. He has also served as the D.G of Bureau of Police Research & Development, New Delhi and also as Spl. D.G (Operations) in the Border Security Force, besides serving as I.G. (Operations) and I.G. (Srinagar Sector) in CRPF itself. Specializations: Leadership, inter personal relationship, human rights, communal harmony. Police Operations from reputed institutions that include London Business School, IIM Ahmadabad, IIPA New Delhi and National Police Academy, Hyderabad. In addition, he has gained rich experience in diverse policing domains which range from Counter Insurgency, Homeland Security, Crisis Management, Correctional Administration and Community Policing to Border management.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Director General of Gujarat Forensic Sciences University
• Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Forensic Sciences University

Dr. J. M. Vyas is working as the Director General of Gujarat Forensic Sciences University - Gandhinagar, since February 2009. He worked as the Director for the Directorate of Forensic Science - Gujarat State, from 1993 until 2009 and is also currently holding the additional charge of the same. He was awarded with the President's Police Medal for meritorious services in the field of crime investigation in 1997. He was also adjudged as the Best Forensic Science Laboratory Director of the country and was awarded with a Commendation Certificate by the Deputy Prime Minister at the 15th All India Forensic Science Conference in 2004. Dr. Vyas was awarded with the 'Life time Achievement Award' in the area of Forensic Chemistry by Amity University & All India Institute of Medical Sciences - New Delhi, in October 2008. He holds a large number of publications, in various journals of national & international repute and is a very well known Forensic Expert of the Country.

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• Dr. P.M

Dr. P.M. Nair, MA (Sociology), LLB, PhD (Victimology), is a career police officer with the Indian Police Service since 1978. After 35 years of service in the IPS in various capacities in Bihar, CBI, NHRC, UNODC, CRPF, etc., he retired on 31 st May 2013 as the Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Director General of Civil Defence, Government of India. He served Bihar for more than 15 years in various capacities from SP to IG. He served CBI for 10 long years and has handled several crimes including Rajiv Gandhi assassination, ISRO Espionage case, International Arms drop at Purulia, Sanjay Ghose abduction, terrorist crimes, human rights violations and many interstate and international organized crimes, including human trafficking. With the first crime of child trafficking for labour investigated by him in 1982, his avowed mission of preventing and combating human trafficking is continuing to move ahead with zeal, speed and impact. Dr Nair worked with CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force, the prime agency of the Government of India to address Internal Security issues across the country) for more than 7 years. A powerful voice in the Anti-Human Trafficking mission and child rights in the region, Dr Nair is continuing his mission of empowering the vulnerable persons by undertaking skill building programmes and thereby preventing human trafficking. Presently he is TATA Chair Professor with TISS, and also Advisor to Chairperson, National Skill Building Mission.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Committee

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Committee
• Indian Administrative Service Officer

Gopal Krishna Pillai or G. K. Pillai is an Indian Administrative Service officer and the former Home Secretary of India. He studied at Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore and St. Joseph's College, Bangalore, and later obtained an M.Sc from IIT, Madras. He belongs to the Kerala cadre of the 1972 batch of I.A.S.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Committee

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Committee

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• Member of the Executive Committee

Julio Francis Ribeiro joined the Indian Police Service in 1953 and has served in different districts of Maharashtrai. He was on deputation to the Central Reserve Police Force for six years from 1973 to 1979. Later he became the Commissioner of Police, Mumbai. He moved to Delhi as Director General Central Reserve Police Force, in June 1985, but was soon shifted to Ahmedabad as Director General of Police Gujarat, during the communal riots. Having successfully dealt with the problem he was made Special Secretary to the Government of India's Home Department. Before he completed even six months in that position he was sent to Punjab as Director General of Police at the height of terrorism in that State. Later he became Advisor to the Governor of Punjab. After retirement he was appointed Ambassador to Romania with concurrent accreditation to Albania and Moldova. In 1986, the "Telegraph" of Calcutta and the fortnightly "Frontline" published by the ‘Hindu' of Madras named him as India's Man of the Year. The ‘New York Times', ‘Time' and ‘Newsweek' of America also mentioned his contribution to fighting terrorism in Punjab. Because of his qualities of head and heart he became known as the country's first ‘Super Cop'. He is also associated with many charitable institutions like The Happy Home & School for the Blind and The Bombay Mothers & Children Welfare Society. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1987 in recognition of his services to the nation.

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• Member of the Executive Committee

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Senior Advisor, MHA, Govt of India

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Committee

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• Member of the Executive Committee

M.R.Reddy joined Indian Police Service in 1967 and was allotted to Maharashtra cadre, where he worked in a number of cities as Superintendent of Police / Deputy Commissioner of Police. He went on deputation to Government of India and served in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in various capacities handling Intelligence, Industrial / VIP security and Counter Terrorism.He headed SPG as theDirector. He was also posted as Secretary, Security, Government of India. He was awarded Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service (IPM) and Presidents Police Medal for Distinguished Service (PPM) in recognition of his valuable services. He has set up a premier Security Services Company, Raxa Security Services Ltd., Bangalore, a GMR Group company and headed the company as the Managing Director. After retirement, he continues as Advisor, Security / Vigilance for the Group.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• ACTING CHAIRMAN, IPF
• Founder of Sardar Patel University of Police

M.L. Kumawat is the Founder of Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur. He has served the police for over thirty seven years as Chief of Greyhounds, Andhra Pradesh; Joint Director, CBI, Mumbai, Addl Director General (Law and Order), Andhra Pradesh; Chief of CID, Andhra Pradesh, Special Secretary, Internal Security, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India; Director General of Border Security Force (BSF). He has been awarded "Merit Certificate" by the Govt. of Rajasthan (1985), Gold medal at National Defence College of India (1992), Police Medal for Meritorious Service (1989) and President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service (1997).

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
• Senior Advisor, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative ( CHRI )

For over ten years, Maja Daruwala has been the Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). Ms Daruwala is a part of several charitable boards in India and abroad, including NAMATI, International Record Management Trust, Chair in Multiple Action Research Group (MARG) New Delhi, and Public Affairs Centre (PAC) Bangalore. She is also honoured as one of the 200 World's most dynamic women as compiled by London based author and social campaigner Zerbanoo Gifford. Born in India, Maja has lived and worked in England, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Back in India, she has practised for a short while in the Supreme Court but then left to work fulltime at the Ford Foundation as a programme officer for South Asia. Maja's interests lie particularly in the area of systemic reforms. She has focused her energies on issues of accountability and participation, which she believes are essential underpinnings for good governance and the realisation of human rights. Maja sits on several charitable boards, including the Open Society Justice Initiative, the International Women's Health Coalition, both based in New York.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• PRESIDENT and FOUNDER IPF

Ramachandran served as the Chairman and CEO of the Port of Cochin for the period 2005 -2011. He is credited for extensive labour reforms during this period, as well as the timely implementation of a slew of mega infrastructure and modernisation projects that have resulted in a complete transformation of the port. He also introduced complete digitisation of all aspects of port operations implementing an ERP, making Cochin the first e-Port in the country, ensuring complete transparency and efficiency in port operations.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• CEO, Reserve Bank Information Technology Ltd.

Nandkumar Saravade is currently working as CEO Reserve Bank Information Technology Pvt Ltd (ReBIT). ReBIT has been set up as a fully owned subsidiary of RBI for technology management and cybersecurity for RBI's systems and the Indian banking sector. Till recently he worked as CEO Data Security Council of India - a think tank specializing in cybersecurity policy research and advocacy. During 2013-15 he was an independent security professional and cybercrime expert advising Ernst-Young and ICICI Bank. Till September 2013 he worked as Director Citibank India heading Security Investigation and Vigilance. During 2008-2011 he worked as General Manager Financial Crime Prevention Group ICICI Bank where he looked after fraud risk assessment and controls reviews application screening and vendor due diligence transaction monitoring investigations and regulatory reporting and compliance. Till 2008 Mr.Saravade served with the Indian Police Service. His last assignment in the IPS was Director Cyber Security and Compliance NASSCOM which involved policy formulation on cybersecurity and privacy capacity building for law enforcement advising NASSCOM members on incident response management and organizing mass awareness campaigns on cybersecurity. Mr.Saravade served in the Central Bureau of Investigation for seven years looking after enforcement of the Prevention of Corruption Act investigation of bank frauds and economic offences. Mr.Saravade was awarded the Prime Minister's Baton and Revolver for being the Best All-round Probationer of the 1987 batch of the IPS and also the Indian Police Medal for Distinguished Services. He has served on several technical advisory bodies such as the High-Level Group on Electronic Banking Controls Governance and Technology Risk Management Standards set up by the Reserve Bank of India RBI the Cyber Security Project of Government of Maharashtra and Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council TIFAC of Government of India. He is a regular speaker at apex training institutes technical conferences and industry forums. He holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad as well as a Masters degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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• CEO

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Senior Advisor - External Relations at George Mason University 's Institute of Immigration Research
• Senior Advisor for External Relations, George Mason University

Nishit Sahay is Senior Advisor-External Relations at George Mason University's Institute of Immigration Research (GMU-IIR). He leads center's external relations efforts that build and sustain IIR's expertise and offerings to the wider audience nationally and globally. He works closely with faculty, staff and key persons in the university to enhance academic and research collaborations of the center with Universities, public and private institutions, donor organizations and philanthropic groups. Sahay holds M.S. in Transportation, Policy, Operations & Logistics (TPOL) from George Mason University; M. Sc. in Experimental Nuclear Physics from the department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi; Master's in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and Bachelor's in Science with honors in Physics from Ranchi University, India.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Author and Senior Journalist

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• Member of the Executive Committee

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Member of the National Security Advisory Board

P.C. Haldar is a Member of the National Security Advisory Board. A former Director of Intelligence Bureau, Government of India (2007-2008), Mr. Halder is currently Government of India's Peace Interlocutor with various insurgent groups in Assam, including the ULFA and the NDFB. A 1970-batch IPS officer from Bihar cadre, Mr. Haldar has had extensive experience in counter-surveillance, tackling insurgency and VIP security. He has also served in missions abroad, including in the UK.

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• Member of the Executive Committee

Pankaj Kumar Singh holds degrees of BSc (Hons) Physics from Hindu College, Delhi University, M.Phil. from Chennai University, LL.B Delhi University, and PG Diploma in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad. He has been decorated with several DG's Discs and commendations. He also got awarded with UN Peace Medal (Bar), Police Medal for Meritorious Service and President Police Medal for Distinguished Service. He has authored a book, "Journey to the land of Shiva" and published several articles.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Editor, the Shillong Times, Member NSAB
• Founder of Shillong
• Writer, Journalist

Patricia Mary Mukhim is an Indian social activist, writer, journalist and the Editor of Shillong Times. She is a recipient of honours such as Chameli Devi Jain award,ONE India award, FICCI-FLO award, UpendraNath Brahma Soldier of Humanity award,Siva Prasad Barooah National award and North East Excellence award. She was honoured with Padma Shri in the year 2000. Ms. Mukhim is the founder of Shillong, We Care a non-governmental organization involved in the fight against the militancy in Meghalaya. She is a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India and serves as a member of the National Foundation for Communal Harmony, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, India. Mukhim is the director of Indigenous Women's Resource Centre, Shillong.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Chairman Professor TISS, Former DG NDRF

Dr. P.M. Nair, MA (Sociology), LLB, PhD (Victimology), is a career police officer with the Indian Police Service since 1978. After 35 years of service in the IPS in various capacities in Bihar, CBI, NHRC, UNODC, CRPF, etc., he retired on 31 st May 2013 as the Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Director General of Civil Defence, Government of India. He served Bihar for more than 15 years in various capacities from SP to IG. He served CBI for 10 long years and has handled several crimes including Rajiv Gandhi assassination, ISRO Espionage case, International Arms drop at Purulia, Sanjay Ghose abduction, terrorist crimes, human rights violations and many interstate and international organized crimes, including human trafficking. With the first crime of child trafficking for labour investigated by him in 1982, his avowed mission of preventing and combating human trafficking is continuing to move ahead with zeal, speed and impact. Dr Nair worked with CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force, the prime agency of the Government of India to address Internal Security issues across the country) for more than 7 years. A powerful voice in the Anti-Human Trafficking mission and child rights in the region, Dr Nair is continuing his mission of empowering the vulnerable persons by undertaking skill building programmes and thereby preventing human trafficking. Presently he is TATA Chair Professor with TISS, and also Advisor to Chairperson, National Skill Building Mission.

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• Fellow
• Member of the Executive Committee
• Fellow & Clinton Fellow, Former Policy Consultant to Defence Ministry of India. Columbia University

Mr. Prasanna Karthik is a public policy professional with over eleven years of total work experience spanning across areas such as corporate, election campaign, business consulting, government consulting, state government, and national government. He possess experience and expertise in policy design, implementation and monitoring at senior layers of the government. He is the founder of a non-profit organization called Padmashri Foundation that supports education of children from economically weaker sections. He is a post graduate in MA Human Resources Management and Labour Relations from TISS. He served as an officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister (Manohar Parrikar): Government of Goa, India, policy consultant to the Defence Minister of India (Mr. Manohar Parrikar): Ministry of Defence, Government of India, Senior Consultant at KPMG Advisory Services Private Limited - Infrastructure and Government Services, consultant at National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) - Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, and Head Operations at National Digital Operations Centre (NDOC) - Bharatiya Janata Party. He is also selected as one of India's Promising Young Thinkers, by India Foundation - one of India's leading public policy think tanks.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Senior Journalist & Author

Praveen Swami was awarded Sanskriti Samman Award in 1999, Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Journalism in 2003 and the Indian Express- Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism prize in 2006. Swami was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington in 2004-2005.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Dean, School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance, TISS, Mumbai

Prof. Arvind Tiwari is well known Criminologist and a scholar in Criminal Justice & Forensic Science , Human Rights, Police Studies & Public Security ,Criminal law & Access to Justice; Victimology, Youth Justice and Crime & Development. He completed his Bachelor of Arts , M.A. (Gold Medalist) and Ph.D. in Criminology & Forensic Science at Dr. H.S. Gaur Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. He has published several articles in peer reviewed journals and chapters in edited books. He has been engaged in many public policy research projects in the area of Access to Justice Fellowship Project (Tata Trust & TISS), Non-Registration of Crimes: Problems and Solutions (Bureau of Police Research and Development, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India), Bail and Its Extent of Abuse Including Recidivism (SVP National Police Academy, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India), Community policing and its Impact on Public Order (TISS), Role of Fast Rack Courts in Dispensation of Speedy Justice (TISS), Open Prisons in India (TISS), Status Report on Human Rights in India (TISS), Medical Facilities in Indian Prisons: Role of Doctors and Para-Medical Staff to uphold Right to Health of Prisoners (TISS). He has given over 100 conference presentations such as Presidential address, Keynote address, Special address and Chaired sessions. He has also supervised several successful Ph.D., M.Phil. and Master's students and published several research papers in peer reviewed journals in a span of more than 25 years of career. Presently, he is the Dean, School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance since 2015 and Chairperson, Centre for Police Studies and Public Security at TISS. Previously, he also served as Dean, Office of Student Affairs ,Chairperson, Nodal Centre of Excellence for Human Rights Education (NCHERE) and Coordinator , Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights, School of Social Sciences at TISS, Mumbai. Before joining TISS in 1999, he also worked at LNJN National Institute of Criminology & Forensic Science, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi & National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi . He is recipient of Kumarappa-Reckless award (the highest award in field of Criminology in India ) for his significant contribution in the growth of Criminology in India by the Indian Society of Criminology. He was also conferred Fellow (FISC) and Dr. B. S. Haikerwal and Prof. Sushil Chandra Award for the Senior Social Scientist to a senior social scientist for his / her contribution to criminology in the broad field of social sciences.. He has been conferred Human Rights Millennium and Human Right Promotion Award by the Indian Institute of Human Rights, New Delhi for outstanding contribution in the field of Human Rights and Prof. L. P. Vidyarthi award for Best Social Scientist by Indian Social Science Association (ISSA). He has visited Institute of Ethnology, WestfalischeWithelms University Munster, Germany, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia under faculty exchange programme for exploring academic and research collaborations. Since 25 years he is actively engage in continuing education and capacity building of various stakeholders including criminal justice functionaries such as police, prosecutors, judiciary and prison officers and had organised several National and International conferences/workshops, training and capacity building programmes - Vertical Interaction Course for CRPF officers, and IPS and Senior CAPF officers, Workshop on Personality Development for Prison Officials, Refresher course for Teachers on Human Right Education and 5th Annual Conference of the Asian Criminological Society on Access to Justice for the Marginalised in Asia: A Human Rights Perspective etc. More recently, he has also organised several training programmes for senior police officers of M.P. Police and Indi-Tibetan Boarder Police(ITBP) on Rule of Law, leadership and managerial skills. He had extended professional services to several Universities such as a Member, of Academic Council, NIPEA, MHR&D New Delhi as HRD Minister's nominee. Presently, he is a member of Academic Council ,Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai. He is also serving as a nominated Member, Board of Studies - (BoS )of several universities such as- School of Criminology at Dr. H.S. Gaur Central University, Sagar (MP), M.S. University, Tirunelveli,TamilNadu, Rastriya Raksha University (an institution of national importance, Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI) and School of Law, Jagaran Lake University, Bhopal (MP). Currently, he is a Member in Editorial Board & Board of Referees of many peer reviewed journals such as NCRB Journal, NCRB, Ministry of Home affairs GoI, New Delhi, Member, Police Vigyan (Hindi), Bureau of Police Research & Development, New Delhi, Member, Indian Journal of Criminology , Journal of Victimology & Victim Justice , DSNLU Journal of Social Sciences, Visakapattanam , Ambedkar Law University Journal ‘ALUJ', Chennai and KIIT Journal of Law and Society, Bhubneshwar. He is the former President of the Indian Society of Criminology and currently holding honorary position of Vice - Chairman of the Indian Society of Victimology. He is also life member of several professional associations such as Asian Society of Criminology, Indian Science Association, Indian Social Science Association, Indian Sociological Society, Indian Institute of Public Administration ,Indian Society of Yoga and Indian Police Foundation.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation

Raghava Krishnaswami Raghavan is an Indian former police chief who was Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation from 4 January 1999 to 30 April 2001. Mr. Raghavan is recipient of Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service and the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service. He became the 19th CBI director in 1999. He headed Interpol in India, and set up India's first cybercrime investigation cell. He was also Corporate Security adviser with Tata Consultancy Services. He is a prolific writer and author on contermporary issues concerning policing and national security.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation
• President Risk

Raghu Raman is the President Risk, Security & New Ventures at Reliance Industries Ltd and the former founding CEO of National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), GoI. In his earlier avatars, he has led Mahindra First Choice, Mahindra Special Services Group and Mahindra-British Aerospace joint venture as the CEO. Raghu is a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation and a frequent guest faculty at several prestigious business schools. He writes a column on National Security Strategy & Leadership for leading publications and has also authored a bestseller "Everyman's War" - a book published by Random House."

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• Director
• Member of the Executive Committee

Sh. Rishi Kumar Shukla recently retired as Director, Central Bureau of Investigation. Before that, he served as DGP Madhya Pradesh. An officer of the IPS 1983 batch, he has extensive experience in law enforcement, investigation and intelligence, both at the State and Central Government levels. During his 37 years long career in the police service, Shri Shukla displayed a passion for bringing about transformative changes wherever he served; building and strengthening public institutions to deliver safety, security and services to the common citizens. Sh. Shukla holds a master's degree in Philosophy & has been awarded the President's Police Medals for Distinguished and Meritorious Service. He has a keen interest in Good Governance, Public Safety, Conflict management & National Security and has a special interest in raising & nurturing specialist institutions. His full CV may be seen here.https://www.policefoundationindia.org/images/resources/pdf/Rishi_Shukla_CV.pdf

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• IPS Officer

Rishi Raj Singh, an IPS officer of the 1985 batch, Kerala Cadre, has a reputation of being uncompromising on his principles and duties and being a very strong force of reforms in whichever department he is posted to.He has also been a member of the elite Special Protection Group (SPG).

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• Founder & Director, TechConPro Pvt Ltd, Ex. IPS ( Former ADGP, Karnataka ), Pro Public Speaker, Cyber Security Guru, Thought Leader & Writer

Ex. IPS (ADGP, Karnataka): Accomplished high degree of professionalism in wide and varied professional assignments and finally got groomed and refined into an officer who has 360 degrees experience of all policing tasks, simultaneously maintaining keen interest in all staff functions and a passion for usage of appropriate technology in policing at all levels and in all fields. He is credited to have created an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, the Police IT, Broadband networking and Data Center for the Karnataka State Police. He has immense expertise in a broad band of technologies like TETRA, Geospatial Technology, ERP, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing. An IPS officer of 1989 batch, Karnataka Cadre, who took VRS in March-2020, is an alumni of Delhi's prestigious St. Stephen's College. With 31 years of distinguished service as Police Chiefs of three dist. and Additional Commissioner of Police in Bangalore City Police, he has also headed the investigation wing of Lokayukta, Police Welfare, Public Grievances & Human Rights, State Police Communication and State Crime Records Bureau as ADGP. He has headed UN, Recruitment & Selection, for Kosovo Police Service at Pristina, Kosovo, erstwhile Yugoslavia and was as a Regional Commander in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan. A prolific writer, who besides writing for professional magazines and humongous tech documentation on a regular basis also has one genre of writing which is conspicuously his own. Known as DailyPost which is shortly reaching its 1825 edition, back-to-back since 26th Sept 2016 and continues to this day, every day, has diverse topics in the overall gamut of technology, management, governance, covid-19 updates, politics and self-improvement in that order. It has now become a sought-after knowledge repository, all compiled together. He started Experiential Learning Lectures, ELL as it is popularly known in the year 2012. Since his first indulgence in Cyber Security in 2013, today he happens to be India's most sought-after practitioner and speaker in this area. He is a Management Guru in his own right indulging into e-Governance as well. A Thought Leader of repute, who has been changing hearts and minds of people ceaselessly. He has overall Tech Leadership Expertise in Digital Transformation and Cyber Security with end-to-end expertise in technology, management and governance. A Complete Technocrat with 20 years hands on experience in governance and technology in delivering transformative projects with a blend of conventional and disruptive IT technologies, to a complete digital transformation. Technology Evangelist is what he loves to be known as and he is an avowed practitioner of it.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Committee
• IPS Officer

In his thirty-eight years of service as an IPS officer, Sanjeev Dayal has held several key positions across Maharashtra, along with stints with the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Special Protection Group (SPG).As external security chief in 1999, he was responsible for the security of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during his historic visit to Pakistan.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Committee
• Author and Senior Journalist

Sanjoy Hazarika, human rights activist, scholar, author, journalist and filmmaker, is currently International Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi. Author of several books including most recently Strangers no More, New Narratives from the North East, a successor to his acclaimed Strangers of the Mist, he is columnist and commentator on rights issues, conflict, migration and development-related issues in the North East and its neighborhood. He is currently working on two new books, including a travelogue. Earlier, he was Founder- Director of the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research at Jamia Millia Islamia and has launched C-NES which pioneered the boat clinics on the Brahmaputra (www.c-nes.org). Hazarika's documentaries include river journeys, films on the endangered Gangetic Dolphin and the impact of conflict on women in the region.

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• Member of the Executive Committee

Shyamal Dutta has a degree in MA in Political Science from Calcutta University. He joined the Indian Police Service in 1965 with West Bengal as the cadre. After serving districts of Coocbehar, Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling as the Superintendents of Police and Deputy Commissioner in Calcutta Police, joined on deputation, the Intelligence Bureau, Govt. of India, New Delhi, as Assistant Director in January 1979. Served in different analysis desks before becoming the Station Chief of the Bureau in Bihar at Patna. He took charge of the Special Protection Group (SPG) as its Director in September, 1994 before returning to the IB as Addl Directorin 1997 and becoming its Special director the same year. He assumed charge of the office of the Director, Intelligence Bureau, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 1998 to ultimately retire in May 2001. He became the governor of Nagaland in 2002 and completed his office in 2007. He was the recipient of Indian Police Medals for meritorious and distinguished services.

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• Member of the Executive Committee

Sudhir Kumar, a 1968 batch IPS officer, retired as Secretary (Security) Cabinet Secretariat had served in different capacities in his parent cadre of Maharashtra till 1980 before joining the Intelligence Bureau on deputation. He is a graduate in science with Masters in Modern History. He has the distinction of attending prestigious National Defence College Course. He started his career in IPS Cadre and was superannuated in 2005 - as Secretary (Security), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India. Thereafter he held the enviable post of Vigilance Commissioner, Central Vigilance Commission, Government of India till 2009.

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• Member of the Executive Committee
• TREASURER
• TREASURER Former DG NSG

He retired in the year 2018 as the Director General of National Security Guard (NSG). He belonged to the 1983 batch of the Indian Police Service, Rajasthan cadre and served the Districts of Jaisalmer, Ganganagar, Alwar and Jodhpur as Superintendent of Police. At the Central level, he served the CBI, CISF and CRPF in various capacities. He has an MPhil Degree in ‘Strategic and Defence Studies' from the National Defence College, New Delhi and is also an adjunct Professor in Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.

Job Titles:

• Chief
• Member of the Executive Committee
• Secretary

Sunil Kumar, a 1979 batch IAS officer, was the seventh chief secretary of the Chhattisgarh. He had also served as Additional Secretary HRD in the Government of India. He was the Secretary to the Chief Minister between 2000 and 2003. Mr. Kumar also served as District Magistrate of Raipur and Dhar during his initial years.