Ajit Kumar Doval (born 20 January 1945) is the National Security Advisors (NSA) of India to the Prime minister Narendra Modi. He was a RAW spy, Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief and Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. He previously served as the director of the IB in 2004–05, after working for a decade as the head of its operation wing. He worked as an undercover spy of RAW for one year in Pakistan, where he gathered information of various terrorist organisations and then 6 years as an officer in Indian high commission in Islambad. He is popularly called as "James Bond of India" due to his astonishing achivements as a RAW spy and service in IB. He spent most part of his career as a spy of IB. His sucessful operation as a spy and intelligence head includes Operation Black Thunder 1988, Rescue of 46 Indian national in Iraq, 2015's Operation versus Nagaland militants with India army, 2016 surgical strike on Pakistan, Operation to sabotage terror organisation PFI and many more. He was the founder director of right-wing think tank Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), before appointment as NSA. It was founded in December 2009. Early life and education Doval was born in 1945 in Ghiri Banelsyun village in Pauri Garhwal in the erstwhile United Provinces, now in Uttarakhand. Doval's father, Major G. N. Doval, was an officer in the Indian Army. He received his early education at the Ajmer Military School in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He graduated with a master's degree in economics from the Agra University in 1967. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University (formerly Agra University) in December 2017; Kumaun University in May 2018; and Amity University, in November 2018. Police and intelligence career Doval joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1968 in the Kerala cadre as the ASP of Kottayam district. He was posted in north-east India. He was a spy of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), lived in Pakistan for seven years and did espionage. He was actively involved in anti-insurgency operations in Punjab. Doval worked in Thalassery, Kerala, for a few months in 1972, before joining the central service. He has the experience of being involved in the termination of all 15 hijackings of Indian Airlines aircraft from 1971 to 1999. In the headquarters, he headed IB's operations wing for over a decade and was founder Chairman of the Multi