JAMMU, Nov 01: IFS Officer hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, Vikram Misri is Foreign Secretary of India
As per details with Cross Town News , Shri Vikram Misri assumed charge as Foreign Secretary on 15 July 2024.
A career diplomat from the 1989 batch of the Indian Foreign Service, Ambassador Misri has served in various capacities at the Ministry of External Affairs, in the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi and in various Indian Missions abroad in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
His assignments in New Delhi have included work on the Pakistan desk of the Ministry of External Affairs and stints on the staffs of two Foreign Ministers (Mr. I.K. Gujral and Mr. Pranab Mukherjee).
Apart from serving as the Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, he has also served as Private Secretary to three Prime Ministers of India (Shri I.K. Gujral; Dr. Manmohan Singh and Shri Narendra Modi). Ambassador Misri has served abroad in Brussels, Tunis, Islamabad and Washington D.C.
He was Deputy High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka and Consul General of India in Munich.
Ambassador Misri was appointed India’s Ambassador to Spain in 2014, Ambassador to Myanmar in 2016 and Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, where he served from January 2019 to December 2021. He was most recently the Deputy National Security Adviser (Strategic Affairs) of India, a post he held from 01 January 2022 to 30 June 2024.
Ambassador Misri was born in Srinagar and had his early education there as well as in Udhampur (Carmel Convent School) in Jammu and Kashmir.
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