Anil Kumar

IAF Bureau • VP: Relations with International Organizations
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) • Director, ISTRAC, Fellow of Prestigious Indian National Academy of Engineering, INAE Fellow of Aeronautical Society of India

  • In 2022, established ISRO system for safe and sustainable space operations management IS4OM which was dedicated to the nation by Honourable central minister Dr. Jitendra Singh.
  • Held various positions in ISTRAC such as Associate Director, Deputy Director of Safe & Sustainable Operations Management, Deputy Director Software Systems and Quality Area.
  • Earlier Director, Directorate of space situational awareness and management, in ISRO HQ and Head, Applied Mathematics Division, VSSC.
  • He was the Project Director for Netra, which establishes network of RADARs and Optical Telescopes for space object tracking.
  • ISRO representative at UNCOPUOS, UNOOSA, IAA working group, IAF WG on STM etc, UNCOPUOS Long term sustainability Working Group, Chaired UNCOPUOS Working Group of the Whole (2024 ST&SC Session)
  • ISRO team leader Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee IADC, two years Chair for IADC working group on mitigation, Chair of IADC during 2023-2024
  • Member International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)
    Member ASI, SSI, ISSE, Bharat Ganita Parishad
  • Reviewer for Many International Journals including Acta Astronautica and Journal of Spacecraft
  • Key note Speaker to many conferences/workshops, including Second International Orbital Debris Conference (hosted by NASA at Sugarland, Texas during Dec. 2023), UN/IAF Workshop at Baku, Azerbaijan in Oct. 2023, UNOOSA/Portugal space agency Policy Symposium Key note address, 6th Summit on sustainability at Tokyo during July 11-12, 2024 and Space Generation Advisory Council Workshop at Bangalore etc. Key Note speaker for upcoming UN/IAF Workshop at Milan during 11-13, Oct. 2024
  • Founder and Chairman of Charity trust I-Care, supporting under privileged and financially backward patients for medical treatments and also students from weaker sections for their education.

ACADEMIC

Master of Science (M. Sc.) with 2nd Rank, Master of Philosophy (M. Phil.) both in Mathematics
Master of Science (M. Sc.) and Ph. D in Aerospace engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore, India
Graduated Space Studies Program (2007) from International Space University (ISU), France

Awards & recognitions

  • Guided 6 researchers for Ph D, 11 M Tech projects.
  • More than 50 reviewed journal publications, 60 conference publications
  • Published one book on Space Debris Research in India -Team leader ISRO Team award
  • Vikram Award from SSI
  • Space System award from ASI

Events

The Global Space Exploration Conference 2025

7-9 May 2025

New Delhi, India

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IAF Spring Meetings 2025

25-27 March 2025

Paris, France

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IAF SYMPOSIUM 2025

11 February 2025

Vienna, Austria

Participation:

IAF Spring Meetings 2024

26-28 March 2024

Paris, France

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International Astronautical Congress 2023

2-6 October 2023

Baku, Azerbaijan

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