Decoding India's Global rise

Our Team

Centre for Global India Insights (CGII) is supported by a distinguished advisory board comprising eminent diplomats, scholars, and industry leaders who provide strategic guidance and thought leadership in shaping our initiatives.

Our leadership team is committed to fostering meaningful discussions, delivering high-quality research, and strengthening India’s engagement with the world.

Board Of Advisors

Kanwal Sibal (1)
Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India, India’s Former Ambassador to Russia and France
Prof-Anil-Sooklal(1)
South Africa’s High Commissioner to India
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India’s Ministry of External Affairs, Former Secretary Italy, Thailand, Poland and Oman
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India’s Former Permanent Representative to the UN and Ambassador to Kazakhstan, foreign affairs analyst
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Former Secretary (Economic Relations), Ministry of External Affairs, India’s Former Ambassador to Kenya and Hungary
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Fellow of the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI, Berlin) and an honorary member of the Indonesian Creative Cities Network (ICCN)

Founder & CEO

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Founder-CEO TGII Media Private Limited and Centre for Global India Insights, Author, Columnist – Global Affairs

Speakers / Contributors

Amitabh Kant
India’s former G20 Sherpa
Anil Golani
Air Vice Marshal IAF (Retd.)
Prof-Anil-Sooklal(1)
South Africa’s High Commissioner to India
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Aparajita Sarangi

BJP MP from Bhubaneswar and a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer
Arvind Gupta
Director of the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi
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India’s former Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Sweden, and Latvia
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Member Of Parliament, New Delhi
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Ambassador (Retd.) Bhaswati Mukherjee

Former Ambassador of India to the Netherlands
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Economist & Author
Brij Lal

Brij Lal

Distinguished Indian politician from BJP and former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer.
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India’s BRICS Sherpa, Secretary (ER) in India’s Ministry of External Affairs
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Chairman, The Hi-Tech Group
Denis Alipov
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to India
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Former Member of Parliament
Gautam Bambawale
Former Ambassador to China, High Commissioner to Pakistan
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Harsh Vardhan Shringla is Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). He was India’s Foreign Secretary from January 2020 to April 2022 and Chief Coordinator for India’s G20 Presidency from 2022-2023.
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Indonesia’s Ambassador to India
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FICCI Director General
Egypt’s Ambassador
Egypt’s Ambassador to India
Kanwal Sibal (1)
Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India, India’s Former Ambassador to Russia and France
Kenneth da Nobrega
Brazil’s Ambassador to India
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Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri is a former Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations and the Founding Deputy Executive Director of UN Women
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Founder-CEO TGII Media Private Limited and Centre for Global India Insights, Author, Columnist – Global Affairs
Amb (Retd) Mohan Kumar
India’s former Ambassador to France
Muktesh Pardesi
India’s Ambassador to Turkiye
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Priyanka Chaturvedi

Priyanka Chaturvedi is Rajya Sabha MP from Shiv Sena, Maharashtra. She is also Deputy Leader and National Spokesperson of Shiv Sena. She is Member of Parliament Standing Committee of IT & Communications, Member of Consultative Committee on External Affairs. She contributes her opinion columns in various newspapers and websites. She was a part of ISB’s 10000 Women programme, a scholarship programme by Goldman Sachs for women entrepreneurs.
Professor Bijayalaxmi Nanda
Principal, Miranda House College
Raj Shukla
PVSM, YSM, SM, ADC, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) – Indian Army
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India’s Ambassador to Indonesia
Shombi Sharp
UN Resident Coordinator, India
Sujan Chinoy
Director General of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi
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Syed Akbaruddin

India’s Former Permanent Representative to the United Nations
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In-charge. Foreign Affairs, BJP
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Italy’s Former Ambassador to India
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Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha

India’s former High Commissioner to the UK & Sri Lanka, and former Ambassador to Venezuela