Prof. (Dr.) Dinesh Kumar Pandey
Senior Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies
Group Captain (Dr) DK Pandey has served the IAF for more than three decades. He has experience of more than 2500 Air combats. In the course of his service, he undertook AD operations in the Western, J&K and NE sectors. As part of Air Staff Inspections team, at Air HQs, he inspected and audited AD ops at various AF Stations, including AWACS. He has commanded six Air Defence (C&R) Units and was awarded Best Unit Trophies twice. He was Director Air Staff Inspections and retired as Director, Joint Control and Analysis Centre. He was commended by CAS and AOC-in-Cs of Western Air Command and South Western Air Command. He was subject expert of ‘Automatic Data Handling System’, and instrumental in development of various data handling systems, like- LRNG, FADHS, and IACCS systems.
He was Associate Dean & Professor at the School of Business (Aviation Management) at Galgotias University. He was Director, Institute of Management Sciences. He co-edited the book ‘Road to Atmanirbhar Bharat in Aerospace’. He has written more than 150 research papers and Chapters for various peer-reviewed journals / publications and websites. He is currently a Senior Fellow and RCO at CAPS; a member of the Advisory Council of ‘Greater Noida Institute of Technology’ (GNOIT) and a member of the Advisory Board (Academic Affairs) at ‘Foreign Policy School, New Delhi’. His study areas are Air Power, International Relations and Strategic Geopolitical dynamics.