Indian Council of World Affairs

Members of Governing Council

Sr. No.

Name & Designation

1

Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu 
President of the Council
Hon’ble Vice President of India

2

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

3

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

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
CMD. MPK Group of Companies
Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

18

Shri Harsh Sanghavi

19

Shri Ashok Malik
Distinguished Fellow
Observer Research Foundation

20

Shri Swapan Dasgupta
Eminent Journalist and MP, Rajya Sabha

21

Shri Shashi Shekhar Vempati
Chief Executive Officer
Prasar Bharati, Doordarshan

22

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

23

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

24

Ms. Lalitha Kumaramangalam. R
Tiruchirappalli (TAMIL NADU)

25

Shri Manish Bardia
Founder
Moving Pixels

26

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

27

Ms. Preeti Saran

28

Dr. Sanjaya Baru
Editor
Business Standard Limited

29

Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha

30

Shri Aniruddha Rajput
Member
UN International Law Commission

31

Dr. Raja Ram Panda
Fr. Sr Fellow
Institute of Defence Studies & Analyses

32

Dr. Sudhir Jain
Director
Indian Institute of Technology

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.
Centre for East Asian Studies

36

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

37

Dr. Kavita A. Sharma
President
South Asian University

38

Dr. Gurmeet Singh
Vice Chancellor
Pondicherry University

39

Shri Syed Ata Hasnain
(Retd.) LG
Indian Army

40

Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla
Foreign Secretary,
Ministry of External Affairs

41

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

42

Shri J.S. Mukul
Dean (FSI)
Ministry of External Affairs

43

Dr. Ajay Kumar
Secretary,
Ministry of Defence

44

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

45

Shri. Arun Goel
Secretary,
Ministry of Culture

46

Shri R. Subrahmanyam
Secretary,
Department of Higher Education
Ministry of Human Resource Development

47

Shri Durga Shanker Mishra
Secretary,
Ministry of Urban Development