Brigadier Navneet Bakshi, commissioned into the MARATHA Light Infantry, has served for over 30 years. An Infantry officer with extensive operational experience, he has spent more than two decades in Counter-Terrorist operations in Jammu & Kashmir and the North East. He has commanded and served in critical appointments along both the Northern and Western borders.

A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) and the Higher Defence Management Course (HDMC), he has been an instructor at the SC Wing and is a subject matter expert in capital procurement and defence budgeting. The Officer is presently serving as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS).