Dipankar Banerjee

Major General Dipankar Banerjee (Retd), served in key operational and staff assignments in the Indian Army, seeking early retirement in 1996.  His last active command in the army was as Divisional Commander in the Kashmir valley in 1991-92.  He has also pursued full-time academic, strategic and peace studies since 1987.  He was Senior Fellow and later Deputy Director of the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, and was Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies from 1999 to 2002. He is an expert on disarmament studies, nonproliferation issues, confidence building measures, security sector reforms, military doctrines, counter-insurgency and China’s military policy and strategy.  Banerjee attended the Staff College in Camberley, UK and the National Defense College, Delhi.