About the Speaker

Vice Admiral M P Muralidharan is an alumnus of National Defence Academy and a Post Graduate in Defence Studies. In a career of close to four decades in the Indian Navy, he has held several key appointments such as command of three warships including the Guided Missile Destroyer Ranvijay, Naval Assistant to the Chief of the Naval Staff and Naval Attaché, at the Embassy of India, Moscow.

As a Flag Officer he has held the operational appointment of the Command of Maharashtra and Gujarat Naval Area, was first Commandant of the Indian Naval Academy and Chief of Personnel of the Navy, prior to taking over as the 19th Director General of the Indian Coast Guard from where he retired in Feb 2013. As DGCG, he was a Director on the Board of Goa Shipyard Ltd and Chairman of Offshore Security Coordination Committee and National Oil Spill and Disaster Contingency Plan.

Post retirement, the Admiral was appointed as a Member of the Armed Forces Tribunal at its Regional Bench at Kochi, an appointment equivalent to a sitting Judge of a High Court.

The Admiral, a keen student of Strategic and Defence related Issues with special focus on Maritime affairs, is a member of various strategic study societies and institutions and is a regular contributor to professional journals and a speaker at Seminars and Conferences.

The Admiral was awarded the Ati Vishist Seva Medal (AVSM) twice by the President of India and is also a recipient of the Nao Sena Medal (NM).