Dr. Prateep V. Philip, IPS is currently a Director General of Police in Tamil Nadu, India. He is from the 1987 batch of the Indian Police Service. His thirty three year service as a senior police officer includes stints as Superintendent of Police in four districts, Deputy Inspector General of Police in one range as well as in State intelligence, Commissioner of Police of one city, Inspector General of Police, Crime, Economic offences, Wing, Welfare and Civil supplies CID. As a young Assistant Superintendent of Police, he is a survivor of the world's first human bomb assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. This traumatic experience led him to formulate a new idea and start the Friends of Police Movement. The Friends of Police Movement has spread to other states and nations. The Friends of police Movement has been recognised with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Award for Innovation in Police Training and Development, 2002 as well as the SKOCH Gold Award, 2019. He is also the only senior civil servant in India to be selected for the inaugural prestigious Gurukul Chevening Scholarship for Leadership and Excellence. His studies at the London School of Economics under that award led him to conceive a new global discipline to promote innovation called Excenomics, the world's first interdisciplinary study of excellence and its correlation with innovation and excellence. He is the author of several books and articles in international journals. He has created a new thought process as a holistic alternative to Positive Thinking, Lateral Thinking called Equilibrium Thinking.