(1945-01-20) 20 January 1945 (age 79) Ghiri Banelsyun, Pauri Garhwal, United Provinces, British India (now in Uttarakhand, India)
Nationality
India
Spouse
Aruni Doval
(m. 1972)
Children
2 (including Shaurya Doval)
Residence(s)
New Delhi, India
Alma mater
Agra University (MA) National Defence College (M.Phil.)
Occupation
• National Security Advisors to Prime minister[1]
• Retd. IPS officer
Profession
Bureaucrat,[1] Spymaster
Awards
Kirti Chakra Police Medal President's Police Medal
Nickname
James Bond of India [2]
Ajit Kumar DovalKC PPM
PM (born 20 January 1945) is a bureaucrat, spymaster and National Security Advisor (NSA) of India to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.[3] He was Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief and Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from Kerala cadre.[4][5][6][7]
He previously served as the director of the IB in 2004–05, after working for a decade as the head of its operation wing.[8] He worked as an undercover spy of IB for one year in Pakistan then 6 years as an officer in Indian high commission in Islamabad.[9] He spent most part of his career as a spy of IB.[9]
His successful operation as a spy and intelligence head includes Operation Black Thunder 1988, rescue of 46 Indian national in Iraq, 2015's operation versus Nagaland militants with the India army, to sabotage terror organisation PFI and many more.[3][9][10]
He is the founder director of the right of centre leaning think tank Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), before appointment as NSA. It was founded in December 2009.[11][12]
^ ab"List of Officers (PMO) | Prime Minister of India". Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
^"NSA Ajit Doval turns 77 today; all you need to know about the 'James Bond of India'". 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
^ ab"NSA Ajit Doval turns 77 today; all you need to know about the 'James Bond of India'". Firstpost. 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
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^"डोवाल बने राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार" [Doval becomes National Security Advisor] (in Hindi). BBC. 31 May 2014. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2014. ...अजित कुमार डोवाल को प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी का राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार...
^Donthi, Praveen (September 2017). "Ajit Doval in theory and practice". The Caravan. Archived from the original on 30 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
^"Ajit Doval Biography: Birth, Education, Awards, IPS, Intelligence and NSA Career". Jagranjosh.com. 21 January 2022. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
^ abc"Who is Ajit Doval". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
^Negi, Manjeet (22 September 2022). "Not a single bullet fired: How Centre planned mega crackdown on PFI terror links". India Today. Archived from the original on 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^Pubby, Manu. "Pro-BJP think tank Vivekananda International Foundation skewers government on 'One Rank One Pension'". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
^"Former deputy NSA Arvind Gupta to head Vivekananda Intl Foundation". Hindustan Times. 23 September 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
Ajit Kumar Doval KC PPM PM (born 20 January 1945) is a bureaucrat, spymaster and National Security Advisor (NSA) of India to Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
for "any hurt the statements may have caused". Shaurya is the son of AjitDoval, India's National Security Advisor. He attended am Army Public School...
chief AjitDoval saying that India would have had a stronger negotiating hand if the aircraft had not been allowed to leave Indian territory. Doval, the...
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advisor to the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), headed by AjitDoval, India's fifth National Security Advisor. After a 21-month tenure, Chauhan...
Intelligence Bureau of India. He has been considered a Top Spy and close aide of AjitDoval. He joined the Intelligence Bureau in 1998. Deka was born on 25 February...
National Security Advisor AjitDoval was given the responsibility of restoring peace in the region. On 26 February, Doval travelled to the violence-hit...
to the Pulwama attack in 2019, including instructions by Modi and NSA AjitDoval for him to stay quiet on the mistakes and that he "realised that all the...
Chanakyapuri allotted by the P. V. Narasimha Rao government in 1993. AjitDoval, who retired as the director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2005, became...
29 June 2021. "table of precedence". Roche, Elizabeth (3 June 2019). "AjitDoval to stay as NSA, gets cabinet rank with 5-year term". mint. Retrieved 23...
member of the Strategic Policy Group headed by National Security Advisor AjitDoval. It is a crucial wing of the National Security Council.[clarification...
government in maintaining peace, after meeting with National Security Advisor AjitDoval. The Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid, Delhi supported the verdict, saying...
Kashmir House, New Delhi was to serve as the committee's secretariat. NSA AjitDoval chaired the committee's first meeting on 3 May 2018, which was attended...
benefit schemes. He quoted a former chief of the Intelligence Bureau AjitDoval, who had said that originally Aadhaar aimed to weed out illegal aliens...
Chakra, Kirti Chakra). The current National Security Advisor of India, AjitDoval, was an IPS officer who earned the Kirti Chakra for his gallant actions...
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Retrieved 2 October 2019. Negi, Manjeet Singh (2 October 2019). "NSA AjitDoval meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, discusses Kashmir". India...
Himanshi (2017). "ISI backed Kandahar hijackers: Plane crisis negotiator AjitDoval". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018. Retrieved...
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Kirti Chakra
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President's Police Medal