Biography of Ajit Kumar Doval,Age,Education,Family

Ajit Kumar Doval

Ajit Kumar Doval is the 5th and current National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India. He previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2004–05, after spending a decade as the head of its operation wing.

Born: 20 January 1945 (age 75 years), Pauri Garhwal

Full name: Ajit Kumar Doval

Spouse: Anu Doval

Office: National Security Advisor since 2014

Education: Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University (1967), National Defence College, Agra College Agra, more

Children: Shaurya Doval, Vivek Doval.

Doval was born in 1945 in Ghiri Banelsyun village in Pauri Garhwal in a Garhwali family in the erstwhile United Provinces, now in Uttarakhand. Doval's father, Major G. N. Doval, was an officer in the Indian Army.

He received his early education at the Ajmer Military School (formerly King George's Royal Indian Military School) in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He graduated with a master's degree in economics from the Agra University in 1967. He was awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution in the field of strategic and security matters, in science and literature from Agra University in December 2017 and Kumaun University in May 2018 respectively. Ajit Doval was also conferred with an honorary doctorate degree in philosophy by Amity University, in November 2018.

Doval joined the Indian Police Service in 1968 in the Kerala cadre as the ASP of Kottayam district. He was actively involved in anti-insurgency operations in Mizoram and Punjab.

Doval retired in January 2005[14] as Director, Intelligence Bureau (which is India's Internal intelligence agency). In December 2009, he became the founding Director of the Vivekananda International Foundation, a public policy think tank set up by the Vivekananda Kendra. Doval has remained actively involved in the discourse on national security in India. Besides writing editorial pieces for several leading newspapers and journals, he has delivered lectures on India's security challenges and foreign policy objectives at several renowned government and non-governmental institutions, security think-tanks in India and abroad.

In 2009 and 2011 he co-wrote two reports on "Indian Black Money Abroad In Secret Banks and Tax Havens", with others, leading in the field as a part of the task force constituted by BJP.