Arvind Gupta is a career

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of the

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cadre and former Indian Deputy National Security Advisor serving from 2014 to 2017. He was the ''ex officio'' Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat. He served as the Director General of the

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses The Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA) (formerly known as: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)), New Delhi, is India's foremost think tank for advanced research in international relations, espec ...

from January 2012 till his appointment to the post of Deputy NSA. He is currently serving as the director of Vivekananda International Foundation,a public policy think tank situated in Delhi.

Career

Dr. Gupta belongs to the 1979 batch of the

. Over the course of his career, he has served in various capacities at Indian

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s in

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and

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. He joined the

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Secretariat shortly after it was set up in 1998 and served there till 2007. Prior to taking charge as Director General, he held the

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Chair on National Security in the IDSA from 2008 to 2012. He was a member of the informal group constituted by the

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to revive the action plan on nuclear disarmament presented by

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at the Third Special Session on Disarmament of the UN General Assembly in June 1998. He has also worked in the Ministry of External Affairs on different assignments.

Books and publications

* Arvind Gupta,
India`s Nuclear Energy Programme: Challenges, Prospects and Public Concerns
', 2014, Pentagon Press, , 300 pages * Arvind Gupta,
Ideology and Soviet foreign policy : Lenin to Gorbachev
', 1993, Venus Publ. House, , 251 pages *Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, eds,
Select documents on security and diplomacy
', 2003, Manas Publications, , 391 pages *Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, and Akshay Joshi, eds.,
Security and diplomacy : essential documents
' 2004, Manas Publications, , 548 pages *Arvind Gupta, ed,
India In A Changing Global Nuclear Order
', 2010, Academic Foundation, , 312 pages *Arvind Gupta, Amitav Mallik, and Ajey Lele, eds,
Space Security: Need for Global Convergence
' 2012, Pentagon Press,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gupta, Arvind Living people Indian civil servants 1953 births