Served in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cabinet Secretariat for approximately 37 years and retired as Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office in 2012
Strategic Analyst, Major General (Retd) of the Nepali Army, and is associated with Rangsit University, Thailand
Distinguished Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (Delhi)
Member, National Security Advisory Board of India and Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission
Head of Center of the Indo-Pacific Region at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Non-resident Associate Analyst in charge of the South Asia portfolio at the EUISS
Associate Senior Policy Fellow, Asia Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations.
Deputy Director of the Arctic Centre and Senior Lecturer at the Department of World History of Petrozavodsk State University
Former Indian Commissioner for Indus Waters. Adviser, Ken Betwa Link Project Authority, Bhopal
Entrepreneur, investor, corporate executive, teacher, board member, columnist and mentor
Professor, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Program Coordinator and Research Associate at Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE)
Visiting Fellow at the Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE), Kathmandu, Nepal.
Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, and author
Research Fellow for South and Central Asian Defence, Strategy and Diplomacy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)