President, Centre for Security Analysis (CSA)
Director, Delhi Policy Group (DPG)
Expertise: Security & Peace Studies, Nuclear Deterrence and Non-Proliferation,
CBMs, Non-Traditional Security, South Asia, Military History & War Studies.
After a distinguished career
in the Indian Army, where he was decorated on three occasions, Gen.
Raghavan retired as Director General of Military Operations. His
combat experience included operations in wars with Pakistan and China and in counter-insurgency
campaigns.
The General is the founding
President, CSA and has led programmes on peninsular India’s security perspectives, relations with
South East Asia, Civil Society –Governance interface, and on the
conflict in Sri Lanka. He
joined DPG as the founding Director, in which capacity, he
successfully conceptualized and implemented projects on
South Asian Comprehensive
Security focusing on the political, economic, environment
security issues and on
Non-Traditional Security. He led the programme on
Nuclear Policy Stewardship aimed at sharpening the nuclear
debate in India for
introducing restraint and responsibility in nuclear policy.
The General was
advisor and research consultant to the International Commission on
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament convened by the
Governments of Australia and Japan. He was
Council Member, International
Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS),
London and an elected member of the Council of
United Service Institution
of India.
He was a Commissioner of the
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Commission chaired by Dr. Hans Blix; Visiting Fellow at
CISAC, Stanford University and the
Henry L. Stimson Centre. He was also a member of the Committee to
review the Armed Forces Special Powers Act
(AFSP Act).
Gen. Raghavan has addressed conferences at the
Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad
& the
Islamabad
Policy Research Institute; the
Shangri-La
Dialogue,
Singapore and
Global Strategic Review
Conference in Geneva.
He has made presentations and chaired sessions in conferences
and seminars in India,
South Asia, South-East Asia, Australia,
Japan, Taiwan, Europe and the United States.
The General has
authored books amongst which, the monograph,
India’s Need for Strategic
Balance; Essay on Limited
War and Nuclear Escalation
in South Asia, the books
Infantry in India, and
Siachen–Conflict without End are widely known. He has edited
more than two dozen books. His articles have been carried in leading
newspapers, journals, magazines in India and internationally.
He is a guest lecturer at Indian War colleges and the
National Defence College.
He is a member of the National Security Advisory Board.
He is also a member of the Task Force set up by the Government of
India to Review Defence Preparedness.
He graduated from the Royal Military College of Science
and Army Staff College,
U.K. in 1968.
