INAE GOVERNING COUNCIL w.e.f. Jan 1, 2026
| Title | Affiliation | |
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President |
Mr. JD Patil, President, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE); Former Whole Time Director (Defence & Semiconductor Technologies) and Member of Executive Committee of Management Larsen & Toubro Limited; Member of the Board of IN-SPACe; Member Board of Governors IIT Kanpur; Member Managing Committee of PMA India; Founding Chairman Indian Space Association (ISpA); Trustee L&T Employee Trust; Former Director L&T Semiconductor Technologies Limited; Former Chairman L&T MBDA Missile Systems Limited; Past President and Founding Vice President Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers; | |
Immediate Former President |
Prof. Indranil Manna, Vice-Chancellor, Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand 835215; Former Director, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U.P.; Former Director, CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata |
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Vice-President (Projects) |
Prof. Santanu Chaudhury, Dean & Professor, School of Advanced Computing, Ashoka University, Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Sonipat, Haryana; Former Director, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur; Former Director, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani | |
Vice-President (Publications) |
Prof. Sanjay Mittal, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. | |
Vice-President (Fellowship and Awards ) |
Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti, Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata and former Director, NIT Calicut. | |
Vice-President (Finance & Establishment) |
Mr. Pradeep Chaturvedi, Vice-President, World Environment Foundation, New Delhi. | |
Vice-President (Academic, Professional & International Affairs) |
Dr. S Somanath, Prof. Vikram Sarabhai Professor, ISRO; Distinguished Visiting Professor, IISc; Chancellor, Chanakya University, Bangalore; Advisor (Space Technology), AP Government, ISRO Headquarters Antariksh Bhavan, New BEL Road Bengaluru. Former Secretary, DOS / Chairman, ISRO; | |
Vice-President (Resource Generation, Corporate Communications and Membership) |
Mr. T Suvarna Raju, Formerly Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Bengaluru. | |
| Members | ||
Engg Section-I (Civil Engineering) |
Prof. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya, Vice-Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University Chennai ; Former Professor & Deputy Director, IIT Kharagpur. | |
Engg Section-II (Computer Engineering and Information Technology) |
Dr. Manish Gupta, Senior Director, Google DeepMind, Bengaluru. | |
Engg Section-III (Mechanical Engineering) |
Prof. Suhas S. Joshi, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Indore. | |
Engg Section-IV (Chemical Engineering) |
Prof. KK Pant, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. | |
Engg Section-V (Electrical Engineering) |
Prof. Vivek Agarwal, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. | |
Engg Section-VI (Electronics & Communication Engineering) |
Dr. Aloknath De, Founder and CEO, TechCrafter.cps; and former CTO & CVP, Samsung, Bengaluru. | |
Engg Section-VII (Aerospace Engineering) |
Mr. JJ Jadhav, Former Director General of Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India | |
Engg Section-VIII (Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) |
Prof. Amlan J Pal, JC Bose National Fellow, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata . | |
Engg Section-IX (Energy Engineering) |
Dr. Ajay Mathur, Professor at School of Public Policy, IIT Delhi; Former Director-General, International Solar Alliance (ISA), Gurugram.
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| Engg Section-X (Interdisciplinary and Special Engineering Fields and Leadership in Academia, R&D and Industry)
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Prof. T Pradeep, Institute Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. | |
| Reps of various Organisations | ||
Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology |
Prof. Sandeep Verma, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. | |
| All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) |
Awaited. | |
Indian National Science Academy (INSA) |
Prof. Anurag Sharma, Professor, Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. | |
Department of Space (DOS) |
Dr. V Narayanan, Chairman, Space Commission; Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space, Bengaluru. | |
Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) |
Mr. Ranajit Kumar, Former Head, Nuclear Controls and Planning Wing (NCPW), DAE; Former, Chairman, Atomic Energy Education Society (AEES) and Former, Raja Ramanna Fellow, BARC, DAE, Mumbai. | |
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) |
Dr. K Rajalakshmi Menon, Distinguished Scientist & Director General (Aeronautical Systems), Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Bengaluru. | |
Ministry of Education (Erstwhile MHRD) |
Prof. Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Director, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Mumbai [formerly known as National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)]. | |
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) |
Dr. Ashish Mohan, Executive Director, Technology, R&D, IP, Innovation, Design and Waste to Worth Technologies, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), New Delhi. | |
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) |
Mr. Siva Prasad Polimetla, Head- ER&D Initiative, NASSCOM, Hyderabad. | |
| Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) |
Awaited. |
