Indian Council of World Affairs

Members of Governing Council

Sr. No.

Name & Designation

1

Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar 
Hon’ble Vice President of India
President of the Council

2

Dr. S. Jaishankar
Hon'ble Minister of External Affairs
Vice-President of the Council

3

Shri P. P. Chaudhary
Hon’ble Chairperson, Parliamentary Standing Committee of the
Ministry of External Affairs
Vice-President of the Council

4

Shri Rajiv Kumar
Former Vice Chairman
NITI Aayog & Vice-President of the Council

5

Director General
Indian Council of World Affairs

6

Dr. Heena Vijaykumar Gavit
Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)

7

Dr. Virendra Kumar
Hon'ble Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment

8

Shri Jamyang Tsering Namgyal
Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)

9

Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel
Hon'ble Minister of State for Commerce and Industry

10

Smt. Agatha K. Sangma
Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)

11

Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

12

Shri Sujeet Kumar
Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

13

Shri Rajeev Chandrashekhar
Hon’ble Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology

14

Shri C. Banerjee
Director General
Confederation of Indian Industry

15

Ms. Debjani Ghosh
President
NASSCOM

16

Shri Arun Chawla
Director General
FICCI

17

Shri Milind Kamble
Founder Chairman - DICCI
Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
CMD. MPK Group of Companies

18

Shri Harsh Sanghavi
Hon’ble Minister of Sports, Youth Service and Cultural Activities, Co-ordination of voluntary organization, Non-resident Gujaratis’ Division, Gruh Rakshak Dal and Gram Rakshak Dal, Civil Defence, Prohibition, Excise, Jail, Border Security (All Independent Charge), Home and Police Housing, Disaster Management (State Minister), Revenue (State Minister), Government of Gujarat

19

Shri Ashok Malik
(Former Policy Advisor, MEA & Former Press Secretary to the President of India), Partner and Chair of India Practice The Asia Group

20

Shri Swapan Dasgupta
Eminent Journalist and
Former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

21

Shri Gaurav Dwivedi
Chief Executive Officer
Prasar Bharati, Doordarshan

22

Dr. Shailesh Nayak
Director
National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)
Bengaluru

23

Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi
Director General
Research and Information System for Developing Countries
New Delhi

24

Ms. Lalitha Kumaramangalam. R

25

Shri Manish Bardia
Founder
Moving Pixels Pvt. Ltd.

26

Shri Sujan R. Chinoy, IFS(Retd.)
Director General,
Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
New Delhi

27

Ms. Preeti Saran
Chair, Finance Committee
Former Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, India

28

Dr. Sanjaya Baru
Chair, Programme Committee
Distinguished Fellow, United Service Institution of India

29

Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha (Retd.)
Former Indian Navy

30

Shri Aniruddha Rajput
Member
UN International Law Commission

31

Dr. Rajaram Panda
Senior Fellow
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

32

Dr. Sudhir Jain
Vice Chancellor
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi

33

Dr. J. M. Vyas
Vice Chancellor
National Forensic Sciences University, Gujarat

34

Prof. Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit
Vice Chancellor
Jawaharlal Nehru Unviersity

35

Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli, Ph.D.
Dean, SIS School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University

36

Prof. Nageshwar Rao
Director
Indian Institute of Advanced Studies
Shimla

37

Dr. Kavita A. Sharma
Former President
South Asian University

38

Dr. Gurmeet Singh
Chair Research Committee & Vice Chancellor
Pondicherry University

39

Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.)
Former Indian Army

40

Shri Vikram Misri
Foreign Secretary,
Ministry of External Affairs, India

41

Shri Manoj Sahay
Addl. Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of External Affairs &
FA, ICWA

42

Shri Sanjiv Ranjan
Dean (SSIFS), Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service
Ministry of External Affairs

43

Shri Giridhar Armane
Defence Secretary,
Ministry of Defence

44

Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar
Secretary,
Dept. of Science and Technology
Ministry of Science and Technology

45

Shri. Govind Mohan
Secretary,
Ministry of Culture

46

Shri K. Sanjay Murthy
Secretary,
Department of Higher Education
Ministry of Human Resource Development

47

Shri Manoj Joshi
Secretary,
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs