Indian Council of World Affairs

Members of Governing Council

Sr. No.

Name & Designation

1

Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu 
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
Vice Chairman
NITI Aayog

5

Ambassador Vijay Thakur Singh
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 Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)

8

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

9

Ms. Anupriya Singh Patel
Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)

10

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

11

Shri Anand Sharma
Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

12

Dr. Vinay P. Sahasrabuddhe
Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

13

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

14

Shri C. Banerjee
Director General
Confederation of Indian Industry

15

Ms. Debjani Ghosh
President
NASSCOM

16

Shri Dilip Chenoy
Secretary 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
Diamond Industry Leader & Gujarat MLA

19

Shri Ashok Malik
Policy Advisor, Ministry of External Affairs and Former Press Secretary to President of India
Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation

20

Shri Swapan Dasgupta
Eminent Journalist and Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

21

Shri Shashi Shekhar Vempati
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
Former Chairperson,
National Commission for Women

25

Shri Manish Bardia
Founder
Moving Pixels

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
Former Secretary General, FICCI

29

Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha (Retd.)
Former Indian Navy

30

Shri Aniruddha Rajput
Member
UN International Law Commission

31

Dr. Raja Ram Panda
Former Senior Fellow
Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies & Analyses
New Delhi

32

Dr. Sudhir Jain
Director
Indian Institute of Technology
Gandhinagar

33

Dr. J. M. Vyas
Director General
Gujarat Forensic Sciences University

34

Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar
Vice Chancellor
Jawaharlal Nehru Unviersity

35

Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli, Ph.D.
Professor
Centre for East Asian Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru Unviersity

36

Dr. Makarand R. Paranjape
Director
Indian Institute of Advanced Studies
Shimla

37

Dr. Kavita A. Sharma
Former President
South Asian University

38

Dr. Gurmeet Singh
Vice Chancellor
Pondicherry University

39

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

40

Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla
Foreign Secretary,
Ministry of External Affairs, India

41

Shri Raj Kumar Goyal
Special Secretary & Financial Adviser,
Ministry of External Affairs & FA, ICWA

42

Shri Arun Chatterjee
Dean (FSI)
Ministry of External Affairs

43

Dr. Ajay Kumar
Defence Secretary,
Ministry of Defence

44

Prof. Ashutosh Sharma
Secretary,
Dept. of Science and Technology
Ministry of Science and Technology

45

Shri. Raghvendra Singh
Secretary,
Ministry of Culture

46

Shri Amit Khare
Secretary,
Department of Higher Education
Ministry of Human Resource Development

47

Shri Durga Shanker Mishra
Secretary,
Ministry of Urban Development