Ajit Kumar Doval IPS KC PPM PM (born 20 January 1945) is a bureaucrat, former spymaster and the current National Security Advisor (NSA) of India.

[22] In the headquarters, he headed IB's operations wing for over a decade and was founder Chairman of the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), as well as of the Joint Task Force on Intelligence (JTFI).

[37][38] In 2009 and 2012 he co-wrote two reports on "Indian Black Money Abroad in Secret Banks and Tax Havens",[39] with others, leading in the field as a part of the task force constituted by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

[44] Although the exact circumstances of their release are unclear, on 5 July 2014, ISIL militants handed the nurses to Kurdish authorities at Erbil city and an Air India plane specially-arranged by the Indian government brought them back home to Kochi.

Indian officials claimed that the mission was a success and 20-38 separatist belonging to Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) were killed in the operation.

[53][54][55][56] Doval is widely credited along with then Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and Indian Ambassador to China Vijay Keshav Gokhale, for resolving Doklam Standoff through diplomatic channels and negotiations.

[57][58][59] In October 2018, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Strategic Policy Group (SPG), which is the first tier of a three-tier structure at the National Security Council and forms the nucleus of its decision-making apparatus.

[61] Doval was one of the seven persons who knew about India's classified 2019 Balakot airstrike, including Indian Navy, army, Airforce chiefs and prime minister Narendra Modi.

He is widely considered to be one of Modi's most powerful and trusted advisors, with major influence over India's national security and foreign affairs.

[67][68] On 15 September 2020, Doval walked out of a virtual SCO meeting after Pakistan projected a fictitious map omitting parts of India.