Asoke Kumar Mukerji
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His Excellency Asoke Kumar Mukerji |
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| Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations | |
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In office April 2013 – December 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Hardeep Singh Puri |
| Succeeded by | Syed Akbaruddin |
| Special Secretary (Political matters) in Ministry of External Affairs at New Delhi |
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In office February 2012 – March 2013 |
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| Additional Secretary (Foreign policy planning & review) in Ministry of External Affairs at New Delhi |
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In office 2010–2012 |
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| Deputy High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom | |
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In office 2007–2010 |
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| Preceded by | Ranjan Mathai |
| Succeeded by | Rajesh N Prasad |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 1955 (age 61) Kolkata, India |
| Occupation | Diplomat (IFS) |
Asoke Kumar Mukerji (born December 1955) is an Indian diplomat and writer. He was Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations from April 2013 to December 2015.
Mukerji was educated at North Point School, Darjeeling and St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
Mukerji qualified for the Indian Foreign Service, which he joined in July 1978.
His early diplomatic career took him to Belgrade and Washington DC. He became Consul General of India in Soviet Central Asia in June 1990, and helped transform India's relations with the five newly independent countries of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan during the momentous period of transition following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. During March 1992 to December 1992, he was India's first Charge d'affaires in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Mukerji is actively interested in Central Asian affairs. In July 2012, he articulated a forward-looking view on interaction with Central Asia in an address at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.
Mukerji worked as a trade negotiator in the newly formed World Trade Organization between 1995-98. He was among the first Indian officials tasked with representing India in trade disputes involving India brought before the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. The WTO Dispute Settlement Body in its meeting on 21 October 1998 recognized his "knowledge of the WTO issues was unsurpassed" while approving his inclusion in the Indicative List of Panelists for Dispute Settlement. Mukerji's article "Developing Countries and the WTO: Issues of Implementation" published in 2000 has been widely used in the context of the Doha Development Round of trade negotiations.
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