Ajit Doval's contribution to India Part-I

Ajit Doval born in 20 January 1945, then Ghiri Banelsyun village in Pauri Garhwal in the erstwhile United Provinces now 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 in Ajmer, Rajasthan.

He graduated with a master's degree in economics from the Agra University in 1967. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University (formerly Agra University) in December 2017; Kumaun University in May 2018 and Amity University, in November 2018. Ajit Doval is a civil servant of the IPS serving as the fifth and the current National Security Advisor (NSA) to the Prime Minister of India, with the precedence equivalent to Cabinet Minister.

He previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2004–05, after spending a decade as the head of its operation wing. He is a retired member of the Indian Police Service. Doval retired in January 2005 as Director, Intelligence Bureau. 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. On 30 May 2014, Doval was appointed as 5th National Security Advisor of India.