Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
| Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | |
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| 30th Foreign Secretary of India | |
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Assumed office 29 January 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Sujatha Singh |
| Indian Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office December 2013 – January 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Nirupama Rao |
| Succeeded by | Arun Kumar Singh |
| Indian Ambassador to China | |
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In office June 2009 – December 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Nirupama Rao |
| Succeeded by | Ashok Kantha |
| Personal details | |
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9 January 1955 New Delhi |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar or S Jaishankar (born 9 January 1955) is an Indian diplomat who has been Foreign Secretary of India since January 2015. He joined Indian Foreign Service in 1977. He had previously served as Indian Ambassador to the United States (2013–2015), China (2009–2013) and the Czech Republic (2001–04), and as High Commissioner to Singapore (2007–09). Jaishankar also played a key role in negotiating the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement.
Jaishankar was born on 9 January 1955 in New Delhi, India to prominent Indian strategic affairs analyst, commentator, and civil servant K. Subrahmanyam and Sulochana. He is the brother of historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam and S Vijay Kumar, former Rural Development Secretary of India. He is married to Kyoko, and has two sons and a daughter.
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 MA in Political Science and an MPhil. and PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where he specialised in nuclear diplomacy.
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 US nuclear fuel to the Tarapur Power Stations in India. From 1985 to 1988 he was first secretary at the Indian embassy in Washington D.C.
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