Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
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Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Foreign Secretary (India)
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 January 2015
Preceded by Sujatha Singh
Indian Ambassador to China
In office
2009–2013
Preceded by Nirupama Rao
Succeeded by [Ashok Kantha
Indian Ambassador to United States of America
In office
2014-2015
Personal details
Born 9 January 1955 (age 60)
New Delhi,
India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Diplomat
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar(
Tamil:சுப்பிரமணியம் ஜெய்சங்கர்) (born 9 January 1955),
IFS is an Indian diplomat and currently the
Foreign Secretary of India
[1]. He previously served from 2009 to 2013 as India’s Ambassador to the
People’s Republic of China,
[2] from 2007 to 2009 as
High Commissioner to
Singapore, and from 2001 to 2004 as Ambassador to the
Czech Republic. Jaishankar played a key role in negotiating the
US-India civil nuclear agreement.
[3]He was also the Ambassador for United states before taking over a foreign secretary.
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Early life and background[edit]
Jaishankar was born in New Delhi, India. He is the son of prominent Indian strategic affairs analyst, commentator, and civil servant
K. Subrahmanyam.
[4] Jaishankar is also the brother of historian
Sanjay Subrahmanyam and of India's former Rural Development Secretary,
S.Vijay Kumar.
[5][6] He is married, with two sons and a daughter.
[7]
He did his schooling from
Air Force Central School, New Delhi and is a graduate of
St. Stephen’s College at the
University of Delhi. He has an M.A. in Political Science and an M.Phil. and PhD in International Relations from
Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU), where he specialised in nuclear diplomacy.
[8][9]
Career[edit]
Joining the
Indian Foreign Service in 1977, Jaishankar served as third secretary and second secretary in the Indian mission to the
Soviet Union in Moscow from 1979 to 1981, where he studied Russian. He returned to
New Delhi, where he worked as a special assistant to the diplomat
G. Parthasarathi and as under secretary in the America’s division of India's
Ministry of External Affairs, dealing with the United States. He was part of the team that resolved the dispute over the supply of U.S. nuclear fuel to the Tarapur Power Stations in India.
[10] From 1985 to 1988 he was first secretary at the Indian embassy in
Washington D.C.
[11]
From 1988 to 1990, he served in Sri Lanka as a political officer and advisor to the
Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF).
[12][13] From 1990 to 1993, he was Counselor (Commercial) at the Indian mission in
Budapest. Returning to
New Delhi, he served as Director (East Europe) in the
Ministry of External Affairs and as press secretary and speechwriter for
President of India Shankar Dayal Sharma.
Jaishankar was then Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian Embassy in Tokyo from 1996 to 2000.
[14] This period saw a downturn in Indo-Japan relations following India's
Pokhran-II nuclear tests as well as a recovery after a visit to India by then Japanese Prime Minister
Yoshiro Mori.
[15] Jaishankar is reported to have helped introduce future Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzō Abe to his Indian counterpart,
Manmohan Singh.
[16] In 2000, he was appointed India’s ambassador to the
Czech Republic.
From 2004 to 2007, Jaishankar was Joint Secretary (Americas) at the
Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. In this capacity, he was involved in negotiating the
US-India civil nuclear agreement and improving defence co-operation, including during relief operations following the
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
[17][18] Jaishankar was also involved with the conclusion of the 2005 New Defense Framework
[19] and the
Open Skies Agreement,
[20] and he was associated with the launch of the India-US Energy Dialogue,
[21] the India-US Economic Dialogue, and the India-US CEO's Forum.
[22] In 2006–2007, Jaishankar led the Indian team during the negotiations on the
123 Agreement with the United States.
[23] He also represented the Indian government at the
Carnegie Endowment International Nonproliferation Conference in June 2007.
[24]
Jaishankar was reportedly considered for the post of India’s
Foreign Secretary in 2013.
[25][26]
High Commissioner to Singapore[edit]
From 2007 to 2009, Jaishankar served as India’s
High Commissioner to Singapore.
[27] During his tenure, he helped implement the
Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) that expanded the Indian business presence in that country,
[28] and oversaw a defence arrangement by which Singapore keeps some of its military equipment in India on a permanent basis.
[29] Jaishankar also promoted the
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,
[30] and IIMPact
[31] in Singapore.
Ambassador to China[edit]
Jaishankar was India's longest-serving ambassador to China, with a four-and-a-half year term.
[32] As Ambassador to Beijing, Jaishankar was involved in improving economic, trade and cultural relations between China and India, and in managing the
Sino-Indian border dispute.
[33][34] In 2012, he became the first Indian ambassador in ten years to visit
Tibet.
[35]
Jaishankar’s tenure as India’s ambassador to China coincided with several major developments in relations between the two countries.
[36] His 2010 briefing to the
Indian Cabinet Committee on Security regarding China’s refusal to issue a visa to the head of the
Indian army’s
Northern Command led to a suspension of Indian defence co-operation with China, before the situation was resolved in April 2011.
[37] Also in 2010, Jaishankar negotiated an end to the Chinese policy of issuing stapled visas to Indians from
Jammu and Kashmir.
[38] In 2012, in response to
Chinese passportsshowing
Arunachal Pradesh and
Aksai Chin as parts of China, he ordered visas issued to Chinese nationals showing those territories as parts of India.
[39] And in May 2013, he negotiated the end of a stand-off resulting from the
encampment by China’s
People’s Liberation Army on
Ladakh’s
Depsang Plains, threatening to cancel
PremierLi Keqiang’s scheduled visit to India if Chinese forces did not withdraw
[40][41] (
See also 2013 Daulat Beg Oldi Incident). Jaishankar also briefed the media after the conclusion of Li's visit to New Delhi in May 2013.
[42]
Jaishankar advocated deeper Indian co-operation with China as long as India’s "core interests" were respected,
[43] and argued for better
market access for Indian businesses operating in China on the grounds that more balanced trade was necessary for the bilateral economic relationship to be sustainable.
[44][45] He was also involved in improving people-to-people contacts between India and China, promoting events that showcased Indian culture in 30 Chinese cities
[46] and concluding an agreement with the Chinese government to introduce
Mandarin in Indian schools.
[47] In addition, he was also responsible for notable investment deals, such as the $400 million agreement for a
Tebian Electric Apparatus plant in Gujarat.
Ambassador to United States[edit]
Jaishankar was appointed as India's Ambassador to United States in September 2013. He took charge on December 23, 2013 succeeding
Nirupama Rao.
[48][49] He arrived in the
United States amid the
Devyani Khobragade incident, and was involved in negotiating the Indian diplomat's departure from the United States.
[50] On January 29, 2014, Jaishankar addressed the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he argued that "the grand strategy underwriting [India-U.S.] ties is fundamentally sound" but that ties suffered from a "problem of sentiment."
[51][52] On March 10, 2014, he formally presented his credentials to
U.S. President Barack Obama at the
Oval Office.
[53]
Jaishankar was involved in planning Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's maiden visit to the United States in September 2014, welcoming him upon his arrival and hosting a dinner in his honour for members of the Indian-American community.
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Sujatha Singh
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Sujatha Singh
Foreign Secretary of India
In office
1 August 2013 – 28 January 2015
Preceded by Ranjan Mathai
Succeeded by Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Personal details
Born July 1954 (age 60)
India
Nationality Indian
Spouse(s) Sanjay Singh
[1]
Sujatha Singh is an
Indian career diplomat who was
India's Foreign Secretary [2]. She assumed office on 1 August 2013 succeeding
Ranjan Mathai. Prior to her appointment she was the Indian Ambassador to Germany (2012–2013).
[3]
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Family and education[edit]
Born in July 1954, Sujatha Singh is the daughter of the former
Intelligence Bureau chief and, later,
Governor T. V. Rajeswar. She is an alumnus of the
Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi and the
Delhi School of Economics from where she graduated in economics. She is married to Sanjay Singh, who is a retired Indian Foreign Service officer.
[1][4][5]
Career[edit]
Singh is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1976 batch. She has served in various positions at the Indian embassies at
Bonn,
Accra, Paris,
Bangkok and was India's
Consul general at
Milan during 2000–04. She has also served as India's
High Commissioner to Australia (2007–2012). In Delhi she has served on the
Ministry'sEconomic Co-ordination Unit and dealt with
Nepal, West Europe and the EU as director,
undersecretary and joint secretary.
[6] Her tenure as High Commissioner to Australia was marked by turbulence in
Indo-Australian ties following racial attacks on Indian students and later by the
Australian Labour Party's decision to make an exception for India regarding the sale of uranium. She has a reputation for toughness, volunteering as a liaison officer on a rain-hit Kailash Manasarovar Yatra in 1983,
[7]taking a tough stance with the Australian authorities on dealing with the racial attacks against Indians there,
[4] and, as joint secretary handling Western Europe, she advocated India's stance of not accepting prescriptive aid from small European Union nations.
[8][9]
Foreign Secretary[edit]
Sujatha Singh was chosen as Foreign Secretary over
S. Jaishankar who is currently
India's Ambassador to United States as the senior-most officer in the service. She has never served in any of India's neighbouring nations which is seen as a challenge[
citation needed]. Singh will be the third lady officer to head the Indian diplomatic corps after
Chokila Iyer and
Nirupama Rao. She is a
German speaker and will serve as Foreign Secretary for a two-year term ending in August 2015.
[1][5][10][11]Singh has identified improving ties with India's neighbours as her immediate priority and is scheduled to make her inaugural visit as Foreign Secretary to Bhutan to smooth tensions that have crept into the Indo-Bhutanese ties on account of India's decision to withdraw gasoline subsidies.
[12]
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Do not diss people who work diligently for India to the best of their abilities. Sujata singh did her part now its
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar who carries the torch. Wish both of them well to carry on with project India.
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