Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon was an Indian academic,politician,and statesman. During his tenure,Menon led India's foreign relations as de facto foreign minister and foreign policy architect,and acted as Nehru's personal diplomat.
Robert Dean Blackwill is a retired American diplomat,author,senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations,and lobbyist. Blackwill served as the United States Ambassador to India under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003 and as United States National Security Council Deputy for Iraq from 2003 to 2004,where he was a liaison between Paul Bremer and Condoleezza Rice.
Jyotindra Nath Dixit was an Indian diplomat,who served as Foreign Secretary (1991–1994),the top bureaucrat in the Ministry of External Affairs. At the time of his death,he was the National Security Adviser (India) to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and is mostly remembered for his role as a negotiator in disputes with Pakistan and China.
Rajendra Singh Pawar is an Indian entrepreneur,chairman and co-founder of NIIT Limited,established in 1981. He also founded NIIT University,a not-for-profit university in Neemrana,Rajasthan,in 2009.
The National Security Advisor is the senior official on the National Security Council of India,and the chief advisor to the Prime Minister of India on national security policy and international affairs. In 2019,the term of Ajit Doval the current NSA was extended for another 5-year term,and has been assigned the rank of a Union Cabinet Minister and ranks at the seventh position in the Indian Order of Precedence.
The Indian Foreign Service (IFrS) is the diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vinay Mohan Kwatra is the 34th and the current Foreign Secretary.
Shyam Saran is an Indian career diplomat. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1970 and rose to become the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. Prior to his appointment as the Foreign Secretary he served as India's ambassador to Myanmar,Indonesia and Nepal and as its High Commissioner to Mauritius. Upon finishing his tenure as the Foreign Secretary,he was appointed the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Indo-US Civil Nuclear Issues and later as Special Envoy and Chief Negotiator on Climate Change.
Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair,CIE was a lawyer who also served as a President of the Indian National Congress in 1897 at the meeting held at Amravati. He wrote Gandhi and Anarchy (1922).
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia is an Indian politician who serves as the Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel in the second Narendra Modi ministry since 2021 and 2022 respectively. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing the state of Madhya Pradesh since 2020. He is a former Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha,representing the Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh from 2002 until his defeat in the 2019 election. He is former member of the Indian National Congress (INC) from 2001 to 2020 and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2020. While a member of the INC,he served as the Minister of State for Power and Corporate in the second Manmohan Singh ministry from 2012 to 2014.
Kumara Padmanabha Sivasankara Menon Sr.CIE ICS,usually known as K. P. S. Menon,was a diplomat and diarist,a career member of the Indian Civil Service. He was appointed independent India's first Foreign Secretary,serving from 1948 to 1952.
Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired civil servant of 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011,as well as being India's Ambassador to the United States,China and Sri Lanka during her career.
The MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) is an academic research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It sponsors work focusing on international relations,security studies,international migration,human rights and justice,political economy and technology policy. The center was founded in 1951.
Parappil-Narayana Menon,also known as P.N. Menon,was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. Like his father-in-law,he undertook an overland journey to Lhasa in 1956,on foot and on horseback through the formidable Nathula Pass,to take up his post as India's Consult-General in Tibet.
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera is a Sri Lankan academic,geopolitics and foreign policy analyst. He is a political columnist and author. He is a visiting professor for geopolitics and global leadership at Northern Kentucky University and a visiting lecturer in International Political Economy for The University of London in Sri Lanka Royal Institute of Colombo and teaches at the International Security at University of Colombo. Abeyagoonasekera has more than a decade of experience in government administration,serving as the head of several government institutions to positions at the board level. His commentaries on International Relations and Geopolitics are published by Observer Research Foundation New Delhi,London School of Economics and South Asia Journal. Abeyagoonasekera writes the monthly column Dateline Colombo for IPCS think tank in New Delhi.
Subimal Dutt,OBE,ICS was an Indian diplomat and ICS officer. He served as India's Commonwealth Secretary and later as Foreign Secretary under Jawaharlal Nehru and was also India's ambassador to the Soviet Union,Federal Republic of Germany and Bangladesh.
Ram Chandra Dattatraya Sathe (1923–2008) was Foreign Secretary (India). He served as secretary from 9 November 1979 to 30 April 1982.
The History of Indian foreign policy refers to the foreign relations of modern India post-independence,that is the Dominion of India (from 1947 to 1950) and the Republic of India (from 1950 onwards).
The Defence Cyber Agency (DCyA) is an integrated tri-services agency of the Indian Armed Forces. Headquartered in New Delhi,the agency is tasked with handling cyber security threats. The DCyA draws personnel from all three branches of the Armed Forces. The head of the DCyA is an officer of two-star rank,and reports to the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) through the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS).
The China Study Group (CSG) of the Government of India is an informal official group set up for advising the government on its China policy. It is a confidential body made up of inter-ministerial secretary-level officials. Set up by the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs under the Indira Gandhi government in November 1975,it was first headed by diplomat K.R. Narayanan. It has been under the charge of civil servants such as Brajesh Mishra and Ajit Doval.
Vikram Misri is an Indian diplomat who has served as the ambassador of India to China from January 2019 to December 2021. He took over as the Deputy National Security Advisor of India from 1 January 2022,succeeding Pankaj Saran.
