Girija Shankar Bajpai

Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai KCSI KBE CIE
Girja Shankar Bajpai with the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the first Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference in 1948 in London.
1st Secretary General, Ministry of External Affairs
In office 1947–1952
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	N. R. Pillai
Personal details
Born	3 April 1891 Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died	December 5, 1954(1954-12-05) (aged 63)
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	University of Allahabad, Merton College, Oxford

Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai KCSI KBE CIE (3 April 1891 – 5 December 1954) was an eminent Indian civil servant, diplomat and Governor. Kanti Bajpai, the Indian academic, is his grandson.

Bajpai was born in Allahabad as the second son of Rai Bahadur Pandit Sir Seetla Prasad Bajpai CIE (1865 - 1947), who in the course of his career served as Chief Justice and Minister of Justice of Jaipur State and was knighted in 1939. and to Rukmine Shukla (18?? - 1945). He was a King's Scholar at Oxford, receiving a B.A. from Merton College, Oxford.

He entered the ICS on 16 October 1915, and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1923 New Year Honours List. The secretary of a Government of India delegation to South Africa in 1926, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in that year's Birthday Honours List and was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)in the 1935 Birthday and Silver Jubilee Honours List while a secretary to the Government in the Department of Education, Health and Lands. In March 1940, Sir Girija was appointed as one of the six members of the Viceroy's Executive Council, the colonial version of a Cabinet. By 1943, he was the Agent-General (roughly equivalent to an ambassadorial post) to the USA for India. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in that year's Birthday Honours List.