Anil Khosla

Air Marshal Anil Khosla, AVSM, VM is Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C), Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force and assumed the office on 1 January 2017 from Air Marshal Chandrashekharan Hari Kumar.

Early life and education
Khosla is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Pune and National Defence College, New Delhi. He is a post-graduate from Defense Service Staff College, Wellington and has two MPhil degrees in military studies. He also attended a higher command course at the Army War College, Mhow and was awarded the Commandants medal. In addition, he attended a senior defence management course at College of Defence Management, Secunderabad.

Career
Khosla was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force in December 1979. He has clocked over 4000 hours of flying on different aircraft like SEPECAT Jaguar, MiG-21 and HAL Kiran. He has experience in both ground attack and air defence roles and specializes in maritime role. He is also an A2 category flying instructor and a fighter strike leader.

He has commanded a SEPECAT Jaguar squadron assigned to a maritime role and two IAF frontline bases, Jaisalmer AFS and Ambala AFS. He has held other key posts as well including, Principal Director at Directorate of Information and Electronic Warfare; Director in Personnel branch; Joint Director at Directorate of Concept Studies; Air Officer Commanding HQ Maritime Air Operations; Air Officer Commanding J&K Area; Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO), Central Air Command; Director General Air (Operations), Air HQ and Director General (Inspection & Safety), Air HQ.

Awards and medals
Kumar has been awarded several medals: the AOC-in-C commendation as flying cadet, CAS commendation, the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and the Vayu Sena Medal.

Personal life
Khosla is married to Mrs Deepshikha Khosla and has two sons. He is interested in golf, billiards and puzzle solving.