Lt. Gen. S L Narasimhan

Lt Gen Narasimhan PVSM, AVSM*,VSM, is an Infantry Officer who served in the Indian Army for 40 years and worked extensively on the India China border. He served as the Defence Attaché in the Embassy of India in China for three years. Prior to going to China, he qualified in the Chinese language with distinction. He has been an avid China watcher for the last 24 years. Narasimhan is a former Member of the National Security Advisory Board. And, during his three tenures on the board, he worked on China and India’s national security issues pertaining to defence. Narasimhan was the first Director General, Centre for Contemporary China Studies, a policy oriented inter-ministerial think tank of Government of India, embedded in the Ministry of External Affairs, for five years. He is presently an Adjunct Distinguished Fellow with Gateway House, Mumbai, Non-Resident Senior Associate with CSIS, Washington DC, Adjunct Professor with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru and Emeritus Resource Faculty with Rashtriya Raksha University, India. He has done graduation in Mathematics, Post-Graduation in Defence Studies and PhD in India-China Relations.