General Manoj Pande, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd.) is a distinguished military leader, strategic thinker, and was the 29th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, from April 2022 to June 2024. With over 42 years of distinguished service, he held several key command and strategic appointments, including General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Command and head of the tri-services Andaman & Nicobar Command. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering, he is the first officer from the Corps of Engineers to become the Chief of Indian Army. As Army Chief, he spearheaded transformative initiatives focused on operational readiness, modernization and technology adoption, force  restructuring, human-resource management and  jointless, to make the Army future ready. He currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at TATA Advanced Systems Ltd and speaks on leadership, motivation, character and nation building, geopolitics, national security, defense, organizational transformation, technology and innovation.