Shri Mukesh Mangal (DIN: 10460089), belongs to the Indian Telecom Service (ITS) of 1991 batch and presently, he is working as Deputy Director General (AI & Digital Intelligence Unit) in Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, New Delhi. He did B.Tech (Electronics and communications) from MNIT, Jaipur in 1990. He has done course on ‘Certificate Programme in Public Policy’ at University of California, Berkeley, USA in 2018 and on ‘Human Resource Management and Employment Relations’ at LSE, Summer School, London, UK in 2015.
He has work experience of more than 31 years in telecom switching exchanges, quality assurance activities in telecom field, internal security issues, cyber security and cyber-crime issues, policy formulation, technology deployment, service delivery, administration at senior positions in diverse organizations such as Department of Telecom (DoT), Ministry of Home Affairs and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).
Presently heading Digital Intelligence Unit of DoT to curb cyber-crime and financial frauds using telecom resources which also include security and protection of digital public infrastructure. He has been instrumental in establishing various national level security projects in the field of cyber-security, digital intelligence platform, Central Monitoring System and Internet Monitoring System for lawful interception. He is also nodal officer for Centre for Development of Telematics, the R&D arm of Department of Telecommunications.