Brig Arun Sahgal, PhD was member of the Task Force on Net Assessment and Simulation, under the NSC, and a consultant with DRDO. He is currently Director Forum for Strategic Initiatives a policy think tank focusing on national security, diplomacy and Track II Dialogues. He was Senior Fellow at the Delhi Policy Group, Head the Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation, United Services Institution of India, and Senior Fellow at the Mohan Parrikar, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He was previously the founding Director of the Office of Net Assessment, Indian Integrated Defence Staff (IDS), Ministry of Defence. Dr. S K Vasudeva is President Global Association for Education Training and Research, former Principal Scientific Adviser Fellow (Defence Technologies) in the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to Govt of India (PSA), former Chief Controller Defence Research and Development. He has received several Awards for his achievements including ‘Path Breaking Research Award’ (1999), Scientist of the Year’ award (2002) and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Prime Minister in 2014.
