
USI Management
The three Service Chiefs serve as Vice Patrons of the Institution. Management is vested in a Council composed of 24 members, ten of whom are ex-officio and fourteen are elected for a period of three years. The Executive Committee, which consists of a chairman and at least seven members chosen from the Council, is responsible for executing the policy guidelines provided by the Council. The Director General is the Chief Executive of the Institution and also serves as the Member-Secretary of both the aforementioned bodies.
The USI Council
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Vice Patrons |
General Upendra Dwivedi, PVSM, AVSM |
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Chief of the Army Staff |
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Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, PVSM, AVSM, NM |
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Chief of the Naval Staff |
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Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, PVSM, AVSM |
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Chief of the Air Staff |
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Council |
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President |
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, AVSM, VM, VSM |
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Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee |
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Vice Presidents |
Lieutenant General Pushpendra Singh AVSM, SM** |
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Vice Chief of the Army Staff |
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Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, AVSM, NM |
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Vice Chief of the Naval Staff |
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Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VM |
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Vice Chief of the Air Staff |
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Ex-Officio Members |
Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, IAS |
Defence Secretary |
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Lieutenant General Zubin A Minwalla, UYSM, AVSM,YSM |
Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff (Doctrine, Organisation & Training) |
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Lt Gen Sukriti Singh Dahiya, SM, VSM |
Chief of Staff, Army Training Command |
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Commodore Saket Khanna |
Commodore (Naval Training) |
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Air Vice Marshal II Kuttappa, VM,VSM |
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff Operations (Strategy) |
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Elected Members |
Lieutenant General Vinod Bhatia, PVSM, AVSM, SM (Retd) |
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Major General lan Cardozo, AVSM, SM (Retd) |
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Lieutenant General Satish Kumar Dua, PVSM, UYSM, SM, VSM (Retd) |
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Lieutenant General Devendra Pratap Pandey, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd) |
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Lieutenant General Arun Kumar Sahni, PVSM, UYSM, SM, VSM (Retd) |
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Lieutenant General Rakesh Sharma, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd) |
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Lieutenant General Raj Shukla, PVSM, YSM, SM (Retd) |
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Lieutenant General Ajai Singh, PVSM, AVSM (Retd) |
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Vice Admiral Sanjay Mahindru, PVSM, AVSM, NM (Retd) |
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Vice Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd) |
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Air Marshal (Dr) Rajesh Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VM (Retd) |
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Air Marshal (Dr) Rajeev Sachdeva, AVSM (Retd) |
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Smt Smita Purushottam, IFS (Retd) |
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Shri Sanjay Singh, IFS (Retd) |
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Member Secretary |
Vice Admiral SJ Singh, SVSM, PVSM, AVSM, NM, PhD (Retd) |
Director General, USI |
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Executive Committee |
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Chairman |
Lieutenant General Vipul Shinghal, AVSM, SM |
Deputy Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff (Doctrine, Organisation & Training) |
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Members |
Those indicated by@ above |
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Member Secretary |
Vice Admiral SJ Singh, SVSM, PVSM, AVSM, NM, PhD (Retd) |
Director General, USI |
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USI Staff |
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Director General |
Vice Admiral SJ Singh, SVSM, PVSM, AVSM, NM, PhD (Retd) |
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Director (Permanent Staff Basis) |
Major General SB Asthana, SM, VSM (Retd) |
Centre for Courses |
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Squadron Leader RTS Chhina, MBE (Retd) |
Centre for Military History and Conflict Studies |
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Director (Consultant Basis) |
Major General Rajendra Singh Yadav, VSM (Retd |
Centre for Security Studies and Simulation |
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Major General (Dr) Pawan Anand, AVSM (Retd) |
Centre for Emerging Technology for Atma Nirbhar Bharat |
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Major General PK Goswami, VSM (Retd) |
Centre for United Nations Studies |
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Major General Sanjeev Chowdhry (Retd) |
Editorial |
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Group Captain Sharad Tewari, VM (Retd) |
Administration |
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