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The foreign secretary (ISO: Vidēś Saciv) is the top diplomat of India and the administrative head of the Ministry of External Affairs. This post is held by an Indian foreign service officer of the rank of secretary to the government of India. Vikram Misri is the foreign secretary since July 2024, succeeding Vinay Mohan Kwatra.
Vinay Mohan Kwatra, (born 15 December 1962) is an Indian diplomat.He has served as the 34th Foreign Secretary of India, from May 2022 till July 2024 [2] [3] and is currently serving as Ambassador of India to the United States from 13 August 2024 onwards.
The Ministry is headed by the Minister of External Affairs, a member of the Prime Minister's Cabinet. The Minister is typically assisted by one or more junior ministers, known as Ministers of State (MoS) for External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary of India is the senior-most non-elected official and the administrative head of the ministry.
As a career Indian Foreign Service officer from 1979 to 2013, Kapur held many government posts both in India and abroad. From April 2001 to January 2005 he was the Indian ambassador to Cambodia. [4] From October 2007 through January 2009, he was joint Secretary of the Foreign Service Institute in New Delhi.
Vikram Misri calling on the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 15 January 2018 Vikram Misri (born 7 November 1964) is an Indian diplomat. He currently serves as the 35th Foreign Secretary of India from July 2024 onwards.
Jaiswal has also served as Deputy Secretary looking after India's relations with the United States of America and as Joint Secretary managing India's relations with West European countries. He has been part of India's delegation at various climate change conferences and was the lead negotiator for the G77 countries at the RIO+20 Conference held ...
Ambassador Sarma served as the Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan from 2011 to 2014 and the High Commissioner to Fiji from 2014 to 2015. He has also served as Joint Secretary and Additional Secretary prior to his appointment as Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs in November 2018. [10] He is married to Ratnamala Sarma and has a ...
He is the longest serving Minister of External Affairs since Jawaharlal Nehru, who held the position during his entire 17 years as Prime Minister. Jaishankar is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Rajya Sabha. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary of India from 2015 to 2018. [2]