Ashok Chaturvedi

Ashok Chaturvedi was the chief of India's external intelligence agency the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) from 1 February 2007 to 31 January 2009. Chaturvedi succeeded P.K.H. Tharakan, a 1968 batch officer of the IPS Kerala cadre who retired on 31 January 2007.

Chaturvedi was part of the Indian Police Service (IPS) as a 1970 batch officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre before joining R&AW's own service cadre the Research and Analysis Service (RAS). Chaturvedi, who was an analyst on Bangladesh and Nepal, had also served in the United Kingdom and Canada besides a stint in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Ashok Chaturvedi was the chief of India's external intelligence agency the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) from 1 February 2007 to 31 January 2009. Chaturvedi succeeded P.K.H. Tharakan, a 1968 batch officer of the IPS Kerala cadre who retired on 31 January 2007. Ashok Chaturvedi, a native of Uttar Pradesh, is an Indian Police Service officer of the 1970 batch and Madhya Pradesh cadre, before joining R&AW's own service cadre the Research and Analysis Service (RAS). Chaturvedi, who was an analyst on Bangladesh and Nepal, had also served in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and in Canada in the 1990s besides a stint in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. His father, a police officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, knew RAW's legendary founder Rameshwar Nath Kao quite well.

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