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{{Short description|Indian civil servant (born 1953)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Arvind Gupta
| office1 = Deputy [[National Security Advisor of India]]
| image =
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| term_start1 = 5 August 2014
| term_end1 = 5 August 2017
| successor1 = [[Pankaj Saran]]
| predecessor1 = ''Position Established''
| office = Director of [[Vivekananda International Foundation]]
| term_start = 24 September 2017
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|07|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh|Nurpur]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], India
| occupation = Diplomat ([[Indian Foreign Service|IFS]])
}}
'''Arvind Gupta''' is a career [[civil servant]] of the [[Indian Foreign Service]] cadre and former Indian Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) serving from 2014 to 2017.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former IFS officer Arvind Gupta appointed Deputy NSA|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/former-ifs-officer-arvind-gupta-appointed-deputy-nsa/articleshow/39634753.cms|accessdate=5 August 2014|agency=Economic Times|date=4 August 2014|archive-date=4 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804225508/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/former-ifs-officer-arvind-gupta-appointed-deputy-nsa/articleshow/39634753.cms|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.vifindia.org/ResearchTeam|title=Research Team|website=www.vifindia.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-03|archive-date=30 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250130160831/https://www.vifindia.org/ResearchTeam|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/former-nsa-arvind-gupta-to-head-vivekananda-intl-foundation/story-1DI4dJZc9jzKwt60EKzY1K.html|title=Former deputy NSA Arvind Gupta to head Vivekananda Intl Foundation|date=2017-09-23|work=hindustantimes.com/|access-date=2017-10-03|language=en}}</ref> He was the ''ex officio'' Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat. He served as the Director General of the [[Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses]] from January 2012 till his appointment to the post of Deputy NSA.<ref>{{cite web|work=IDSA website|title=Arvind Gupta: Director General|url=http://www.idsa.in/profile/agupta|accessdate=23 May 2012|archive-date=9 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609020258/http://idsa.in/profile/agupta|url-status=live}}</ref>

He is currently serving as the director of the [[Vivekananda International Foundation]], a public policy think tank situated in Delhi.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />

==Career==
Dr. Gupta belongs to the 1979 batch of the [[Indian Foreign Service]]. Over the course of his career, he has served in various capacities at Indian [[diplomatic mission]]s in [[Moscow]], [[London]] and [[Ankara]]. He joined the [[National Security Council (India)|National Security Council]] Secretariat shortly after it was set up in 1998 and served there till 2007.<ref>{{cite book|last=Raghavan|first= V.R.|title=India and global nuclear disarmament|year=2010|publisher=Delhi Policy Group|location=[[New Delhi]]|isbn=9780230327863|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Et4xO2xp0IC&q=Arvind+Gupta+%28IDSA%29}}</ref> Prior to taking charge as Director General, he held the [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] Chair on National Security in the [[Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses|IDSA]] from 2008 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Arvind Gupta Takes Over AS DG, IDSA|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=79369|publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India|accessdate=23 May 2012}}</ref>

He was a member of the informal group constituted by the [[Prime Minister of India]] to revive the action plan on nuclear disarmament presented by [[Rajiv Gandhi]] at the Third Special Session on Disarmament of the UN General Assembly in June 1998.<ref>{{cite news|title=India to push Rajiv Gandhi plan for N-free world|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/india-to-push-rajiv-gandhi-plan-for-n-free-world/articleshow/9664993.cms|accessdate=24 June 2012|newspaper=Economic Times|date=19 August 2011}}</ref> He has also worked in the [[Ministry of External Affairs (India)|Ministry of External Affairs]] on different assignments.

==Books and publications==
* Arvind Gupta, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20141019114206/http://www.pentagonpress.in/servlet/ppGetbiblio?bno=629 India`s Nuclear Energy Programme: Challenges, Prospects and Public Concerns]'', 2014, Pentagon Press, {{ISBN|8182747813}}, 300 pages
* Arvind Gupta, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gc5oAAAAMAAJ Ideology and Soviet foreign policy : Lenin to Gorbachev]'', 1993, Venus Publ. House, {{ISBN|9788172380076}}, 251 pages
*Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, eds, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=gARuAAAAMAAJ Select documents on security and diplomacy]'', 2003, Manas Publications, {{ISBN|9788170491682}}, 391 pages
*Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, and Akshay Joshi, eds., ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6ANuAAAAMAAJ Security and diplomacy : essential documents]'' 2004, Manas Publications, {{ISBN|9788170492023}}, 548 pages
*Arvind Gupta, ed, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=BpEDQgAACAAJ India In A Changing Global Nuclear Order]'', 2010, Academic Foundation, {{ISBN|9788171887705}}, 312 pages
*Arvind Gupta, Amitav Mallik, and Ajey Lele, eds, ''[https://www.amazon.com/SPACE-SECURITY-NEED-GLOBAL-CONVERGENCE/dp/B0075MC2IY Space Security: Need for Global Convergence]'' 2012, Pentagon Press, {{ISBN|9788182746053}}

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WilheminaJanzen at 03:43, 28 March 2026