Mr. Muktesh Chander IPS

Mr. Muktesh Chander IPS

Mr. Muktesh Chander joined Indian Police Service in 1988 and has remained posted to several

places including DIG Goa and Addl. Commissioner of Police, Crime, and Traffic Delhi and IG

Daman Diu. He has served as Centre Director Cyber Division and National Critical Information

Infrastructure Protection Centre in NTRO under Prime Ministers’ Office. He was specially

selected as United Nation Police Observer and has monitored, trained and advised police in

Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe for 1 year.

He has been awarded President’s Police Medal for meritorious service, President’s Police

Medal for distinguished service, Police Medal for Hard Duty, UN Service Medal and 50th

Anniversary of Independence Medal. He has written a number of articles on Cyber Crime and

related topics, which have been published in various prestigious journals and newspapers. He is

a resource person for premier institutes in India. He was member secretary of the Joint Working

Group which formulated “Guidelines for Protection of National Critical Information

Infrastructure”.

He graduated in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Delhi University. Mr.

Muktesh Chander also holds a law degree from Delhi University, diploma in Human Resource

Management, Diploma in Cyber Laws and Masters Degree in Criminology & Forensic Science

and has submitted his Ph.D. thesis in Information Security Management to I.I.T., Delhi. He has

also done Hostage Negotiation course at Louisiana State Police Academy, USA and Law

Enforcement Executive Development Course with FBI, Los Angeles, USA.

Apart from this Mr. Muktesh Chander holds a license of Amateur Radio. He is also life member

of Amateur Radio Society of India. During his spare time he plays on flute and mouth organ and

listens to classical and semi classical music.