Retired director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), Shri Pankaj Kumar Singh, was recently appointed as the Deputy National Security Adviser in National Security Council Secretariat for a period of two years. Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed on a re-employment contract.

• In this article, we will take a look at the illustrious career of Pankaj Kumar Singh and his recent appointment as the Deputy National Security Adviser.
• Pankaj Kumar Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, holds LLB and MPhil degrees, besides an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad.
• He is the son of retired IPS officer of the 1959-batch, Prakash Singh, who also headed the BSF from June, 1993 to January, 1994.