Ajit Doval is the National Security Adviser and a retired intelligence officer. He is known as the James Bond of India. He was born on 20 January, 1945 in Garhwal. He completed his education in Delhi and Pune before attending the Ajmer Military School. In 1967, he received his Master’s degree from the Agra university in Economics with distinction and top position. In 1990, he completed an advanced strategic and military training curriculum from the National Defence College in Delhi. In 1968, after clearing the civil services examinations, he became an IPS and was assigned to the Kerala cadre. In 1972, he was transferred into the Intelligence Bureau where he spent three decades. Doval spent six years as an undercover spy in Pakistan. He infiltrated the Mizo National Front breaking the back of insurgency. He played an important role in the field operations leading up to the merger of Sikkim with India.
In 1988, in the Operation Black Thunder, he posed as a Pakistani agent infiltrating the Golden temple in Amritsar to map out the positions of extremists inside neutralising the threat with minimum damage. For this, he became the first police officer to be awarded the Kirti Chakra. In 1999, he was an important negotiator in the Kandahar hijack. In 2004, he was appointed the director of the Intelligence Bureau and retired from his service in 2005. In 2009, he founded the Vivekananda International Foundation and in 2014, he was appointed as the National Security Adviser by Modi Ji. Till 2014 till present, he has served as the NSA. He supervised the 2015 Myanmar cross border operation, 2016 surgical strikes, 2019 Balakot airstrikes, 2017 Doklam border stand off and an attempt to catch Dawood Ibrahim.