Members

The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.

Shashi TYAGI

Shashi TYAGI

Former Chief of the Indian Air Force

Retired Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi served as the chief of the air staff of the Indian Air Force from 2004 to 2007.

Retired Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi served as the chief of the air staff of the Indian Air Force from 2004 to 2007. Tyagi was commissioned as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force in 1963. He held many important staff appointments in the Indian military, including director of air defence, assistant chief of the air staff (intelligence), assistant chief of the air staff (operations) at Air Headquarters and senior air staff officer, HQ Central Air Command. He is one of the few officers to command three separate Air Commands in the Indian Air Force: the Central, South Western and Western Air Commands.