BG(NS) Gaurav Keerthi has been appointed as an Adjunct Senior Fellow with CENS with effect from August 2023.
Gaurav completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University and holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he graduated as a distinguished Littauer Fellow. He has more than 25 years of working experience dealing with national security and policy issues. In the military, he served as a pilot and his last position was as the Commander for Air Defence and Operations command, while concurrently serving as the CiO of the RSAF. After the RSAF, he went on to become the Deputy Chief Executive of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, while concurrently acting as the Deputy Commissioner for Cybersecurity. In that role, he led the development of national strategies, doctrines, and led key capability developments for securing national infrastructure, including overseeing the digital security efforts for the COVID-19 tools. He also represented Singapore at the United Nations Open Ended Working Group on cybersecurity. He is currently an Executive Vice President at Ensign InfoSecurity, Asia’s largest pure-play cybersecurity company.
His research interests include Cybersecurity and Risks of Emerging Technology.