Profile
Ved Marwah is a former Governor of Manipur and Jharkhand with additional charge of Mizoram and Bihar; Advisor to the Gov. of Jammu and Kashmir;Convener Internal Security of the National Security Council Advisory Board; Special Secretary, Internal Security, Union Ministry of Home Affairs; Director General, National Security Guard; the Commissioner of Police Delhi, Joint Secretary, National Police Commission, First Secretary, High Commission of India, London; and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Calcutta.. He has served in various capacities in all the worst terrorism-affected states in India in various capacities.
Presently, he is the Chairman Task Force, National Security and Criminal Justice System, Centre State Commission, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. He has written extensively on security issues. He is the author of “Uncivil Wars – Pathology of Terrorism in India”.He has contributed chapters on security issues in a number of books edited by well known experts on security issues in India and abroad, including in “Combating Terrorism” ed. by Yonah Alexander of Potomoc Institute, Washington. His recent contribution in a chapter on ‘Couterinsurgency in Punjab’ is under publication by the University of Indiana, Bloomington. His contribution on “Autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir” was recently published by Kreddah, Amsterdam. He has written and commented extensively on terrorism, Northeast, Punjab, left extremism, police and other security issues in the media.
He is a post graduate from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and a diploma holder in Public Administration from the University of Manchester, U.K.. As Governor, he was in addition Chancellor of a number of universities in India.
Contact: vedmarwah@gmail.com
