About

Abhinav Dhar is an ED Officer, Investigator, and Inspector with expertise in financial analysis, investigation, fraud detection, team management, strategic planning, decision making, effective communication, public dealing, negotiation, and grievance redressal. He has specific skills in intelligence gathering and analysis, income tax assessment/appellate, legal and penalty matters, audit, inspection, reconnaissance, search and survey, tax collection, and statistical reporting. Abhinav has a background in Information Technology/Cyber Laws & Security and has switched his work domain completely to financial services since 2014. He is currently working as Inspector of Income Tax in CBDT under Department of Revenue, India, and is on central deputation to CEIB as Assistant Director working in the domain of intelligence gathering and analysis of economic offences. He is also pursuing PGDM Executive course with Finance as specialization which helps him to understand the emerging trends in the said domain and apply his academic knowledge for better decision making at work. Abhinav has a deep interest in researching cyber security & cyber law, financial frauds in banking sector, and terrorism & counter-terrorism studies. He has been involved in research on privacy and legal issues in digital forensic investigation as an intern and later as a Research Associate in IIIT Delhi on a project titled "Privacy Preserving Forensic Investigation" as a part of Security and Privacy Group under DR. GAURAV GUPTA. He has experience of working in an IT startup with multiple roles and also in an IT Giant, Infosys Limited, as Systems Engineer. Abhinav's research papers titled "Current Trends in Information Security and Data Privacy" and "Cyber Stalking: A New Venture of Cyber Crime" have been published in the proceedings of International Conference on Issues and Challenges in Networking, Intelligence and Computing Technologies, 2011 and 2012 respectively. He has also worked with the central economic intelligence bureau as an Assistant Director and with the election commission of India as a Micro Observer. Abhinav holds a PGDM (Executive) degree in Finance from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, an MS degree in Cyber Law and Cyber Security from National Law University, Jodhpur, and a B.Tech (Hons) degree in Information Technology from Krishna Institute of Engineering & Technology. He also holds a Class XII degree in Physics Chemistry Maths with Economics as an optional subject from Silver Line School.