Ajit Kumar Doval

National Security Advisor

Ajit Kumar Doval, former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief, has been appointed as the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The appointment of the 69-year-old former head of IB to the post of NSA is one of the first key appointments made by the new BJP Government. Doval is an IPS officer of the 1968 batch from the Kerala state cadre.