Shivshankar Menon
Shivshankar Menon | |
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Ajit Kumar Doval | |
27th Foreign Secretary of India | |
In office 1 October 2006 – 31 July 2009 | |
Preceded by | Shyam Saran |
Succeeded by | Nirupama Rao |
Ambassador of India to China[1] | |
In office 3 August 2000 – 7 July 2003 | |
Preceded by | Vijay K. Nambiar |
Succeeded by | Nalin Surie |
High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka[2] | |
In office 1997-2000 | |
Succeeded by | Gopalkrishna Gandhi |
Personal details | |
Born | Paris, France | 5 July 1949
Relatives | K. P. S. Menon (grandfather) C. Sankaran Nair (great-grandfather) |
Residence(s) | New Delhi, India |
Alma mater | St. Stephen's College, Delhi University |
Occupation | Diplomat, civil servant |
Shivshankar Menon (born 5 July 1949) is an Indian diplomat, who served as
Early life and education
Shivshankar Menon hails from
Menon did his schooling from Scindia School, Gwalior, and later did his MA in history from the St. Stephen's College, Delhi.[7]
Career
Menon started his career in 1972 with the Indian Foreign Service.[3]
He served in the
A major milestone of his career was the
Menon joined the Brookings Institution (USA) as a distinguished fellow and also serves as chairman of the advisory board of the Institute of Chinese Studies based in New Delhi. He has been a Fisher Family Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2015 and Richard Wilhelm Fellow at MIT in 2015. He was chosen to be one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010.[9]
He joined the Institute of South Asian Studies at National University of Singapore as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in November 2017.
Publications
- Choices: Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy. 2016. Brookings Institution Press. Penguin.
- India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present. 2021. Brookings Institution Press.
Menon wrote "Choices: Inside The Making of Indian Foreign Policy" that was first published in 2016 and was based on his experience as National Security Advisor of India.[10]
Personal life
He is married to Mohini Menon and has a daughter and a son. His mother tongue is Malayalam and he also speaks Hindi, English, Chinese and German.[3]
He has interests in classical music and the Himalayas. The Scindia School conferred on Shivshankar Menon the 'Madhav Award' as an alumnus of eminence for the year 2000.[11]
Honours
See also
- Vijay Gokhale
- Dr. S Jaishankar
References
- ^ "Embassy of India, Beijing". Archived from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Former High Commissioners". High Commission of India, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ a b c "Profile of Foreign Secretary Mr. Shivshankar Menon". Embassy of India, Washington DC. Archived from the original on 26 January 2010.
- ^ a b "Menon is next NSA". The Hindu. 21 January 2010. Archived from the original on 26 July 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ "Shiv Shankar Menon is new National Security Advisor". rediff.com. 21 January 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "Faculty/Staff".
- ^ "SHIVSHANKAR MENON". The Scindia School.
- ^ Faculty Profile: Shivshankar Menon, Ashoka University: https://www.ashoka.edu.in/faculty#!/shivshankar-menon-1624
- ^ Faculty Profile: Ashoka University (https://www.ashoka.edu.in/faculty#!/shivshankar-menon-1624)
- ^ Brookings on Choices: The Making of Indian Foreign Policy (https://www.brookings.edu/book/choices/)
- ^ Madhav Awardees: Shiv Shankar Menon, 2000 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine Scindia School website.
- ^ "令和4年春の外国人叙勲 受章者名簿" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Retrieved 29 April 2022.