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Prof. Dr Ummu Salma Bava is Professor of European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair in the EU, Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution (EU-SPCR). She was Chairperson, Centre for European Studies (November 2017- November 2019 and July 2009 - July 2011), School of International Studies; Director, UGC Europe Area Studies Programme (November 2011- March 2014) and Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies (December 2012 – December 2014), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is a guest faculty at the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

With over thirty years of teaching and research and administrative experience, she is one of the leading Indian experts on contemporary Europe, EU, Germany and India with a focus on domestic and foreign and security policy. She also works on regional integration and organization, emerging
powers, international politics, global governance, norms and peace and conflict resolution and higher education. She has numerous publications and her latest articles are published in EU-India Relations - The Strategic Partnership in Light of the European Union’s Global Strategy (Springer
2021) Regionalism and Multilateralism: Politics, Economics, Culture. (Routledge, 2020); Challenges in Europe. Indian Perspectives. (Springer 2019), China, the European Union and the Developing World (Cheltenham, UK, 2015), The EU’s foreign Policy. What kind of Power and Diplomatic Action? (Ashgate, 2013); From BRIC to BRICS (Johannesburg: Institute for Global Dialogue and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2011), Does South Asia Exist?: Prospects for Regional Integration (Brookings, 2010); Regional Leadership in the Global System. Ideas, Interests and Strategies of Regional Powers (Ashgate 2010); Partnerships for Effective Multilateralism: EU Relations with Brazil, China, India and Russia (Chaillot Paper – No. 109, May 2008).

She is International Member, Academic Advisory Board, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany (November 2014-17; 2017-) and was member of the Research Advisory Council of Germany’s leading Think Tank - Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, Germany (June 2013- 2019). Prof Bava was selected by the European Commission for the Jean Monnet Chair, recognizing her as one of the leading experts on European Union in India. She was also selected and awarded in the first round of the UGC- DAAD IGP Project 2016-2020 and
was part of the EU funded FP7 Marie Curie ITN Network – PRIMO (2013-2017), lead by the University of Hamburg, Germany. She has been conferred with different Fellowships and awards and she has been recognised by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005) and the US
Department of State (2007). She is fluent in English, Hindi and German.

Prof. Bava was conferred in January 2012 with Germany’s highest civilian honour - the prestigious Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Prof. Dr. Heribert Dieter is a Senior Fellow, at the Research Unit Global Issues, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin (since September 2001.

His research focus include the following: global governance, development, trade and fiscal policy.

He is a Visiting Professor of International Political Economy, Zeppelin University, Lake Constance (since 2013), and also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Potsdam (since 2017)

Dr T.C.A Raghavan retired from the Indian Foreign Service in December 2015 as Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan (2013-15). He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1982.

He had earlier served as Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan (2003-2007) and High Commissioner to Singapore from 2009 to 2013. During his last posting in New Delhi (2007-09) in the Ministry of External Affairs, he was appointed the Joint Secretary of the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran Division. He has also served in United Kingdom (1995-1998), Bhutan (1992-1995) and Kuwait (1983-1986). His earlier posts held in the Ministry of External Affairs include Director of the Office of the External Affairs Minister (2000-2003).

He was appointed as Director-General of the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi from July 2018 to July 2021. 

He is the author of several books including, ‘Attendant Lords, Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim- Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India’ was awarded the Mohammad Habib Memorial Prize by the Indian History Congress in December 2017. His other books include, ‘The People Next Door- The Curious History of India’s relations with Pakistan’ (Harper Collins, 2017); ‘History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G.S. Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and their quest for India's Past’ (2019).

He completed his PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1992. His dissertation was on the economic history of India. He finished school at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and his college and university were at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. 

Vinay Kumar Dadhwal is currently Indira Gandhi Chair Professor of Environmental Sciences in the School of Natural Sciences and Engineering at NIAS. Prior to joining NIAS, he had a distinguished 38-year career (1983-2021) in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Department of Space (DOS), holding leadership positions as Director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST/DOS, Thiruvananthapuram, 2016-21), Director, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC/ISRO, Hyderabad, 2011-16) and Dean, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS/ISRO, Dehradun, 2004-10) and held concurrent positions at UN Centre of Space Science and Technology Education in the Asia Pacific (UN CSSTE-AP, Dehradun, 2004-10).

Vinay Kumar Dadhwal was born and educated in Delhi where he graduated in Botany from Hansraj College (Delhi University, 1976) and completed Master of Science (1978) and PhD (1983) in Plant Physiology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI, New Delhi) and started his career in remote sensing applications at Space Applications Centre (SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad, 1983). 

Early in his career Vinay developed a methodology for use of remote sensing for crop identification, and crop mapping and later expanded it to yield modelling and crop production forecasting at district to state and national scale under a major program funded by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC), Government of India. He has extensively worked with EO data for applications in land transformation, land surface modelling, deforestation, geo-hazards and hydro-meteorological disasters, to name a few. He was Project Director for the National Carbon Project (NCP) under ISRO Geosphere-Biosphere Program(IGBP), a multi-institutional national effort that established an observation network of carbon flux and atmospheric CO2, and geospatial mapping of national forest biomass and soil organic carbon in high detail. His extensive research is described in more than 300 co-authored peer-reviewed journal publications. His current research at NIAS covers various dimensions of assessment and modelling of the terrestrial carbon cycle of India.

During his tenure at various institutions major long-term programs were initiated, including a satellite-based education program hosted by IIRS for PG students nationally, expanded EO products and services from NRSC for land resources, near real-time flooded extent and forest fires, climate information products, digital elevation models and ocean applications. Establishment of spacecraft and payload development laboratory and space technology incubator at IIST. As a science leader, Vinay has extensive experience in bilateral and multi-lateral space cooperation, including as a member/leader of the Indian delegation to the UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) from 2012 to 2016 and was Chairman of the 53rd Session of Science and Technology Subcommittee (STSC) of UNCOPUOS in 2016. 
 

Gur Prasanna has a Diploma In Electrical Engineering. 

He joined NIAS in May 2021. He takes care of the Lecture and Conference Halls and Postages.

Abhishek Dodda left the Institute. He was a Junior Research Fellow who worked with the SERB (POWER) project. 

Mr Ravisha V joined NIAS in February 2020.

He has a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Bangalore University and Completed CA Inter from ICAI. 

He has been assisting the Assistant Manager (Finance & Accounts) on day-to-day matters related to accounts/TDS filings of the Institute as well as its research projects and training programme/conference/seminars etc., since 2020.
 

Anjali Bharati is studying the impact of citizen science engagement on participants’ scientific knowledge, scientific sensemaking and trust in science. Citizen Science projects where scientists and non-expert citizens involve in joint knowledge production - are increasingly becoming popular globally as a means to collect and analyse large amounts of data as well as a sustainable mechanism to promote the inclusion of the general public in scientific research. Understanding various dimensions of learning happening in such citizen-scientist partnerships is the focus of her research.