S. Jaishankar - A seasoned & retired diplomat best fit for External Affairs Minister

 

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

IFS (Retd.)
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Minister of External Affairs
Let me tell you some of the the highlights about Subrahmanyam Jaishankar who is elected as the current Minister of External Affairs in the Government of India from 31 May 2019.
Key Highlights
  • Around 40 years of rich experience in India Foreign Services.
  • S. Jaishankar is a seasoned bureaucrat and holds a strong Portfolio.
  • Served as an Indian Ambassador to US, China & Czech.
  • Negotiated with US over nuke deal - He negotiated with US diplomats over India-US nuclear deal.
  • Ice breaker b/w India & China during Doklam issue - He was the game changer and responsible for putting pressure on China to step back.
  • On retirement he joined Tata Sons as President, Global Corporate Affairs.
  • Jaishankar was conferred with Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of the country

Life and background

S Jaishankar was born 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 did his schooling from Cambridge School Srinivaspuri and is a graduate of St. Stephen’s College at the University of Delhi. He has an MA in Political Science and an M.Phil and Ph.D. in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where he specialized in nuclear diplomacy.
Jaishankar is married to Kyoko, and has two sons—Dhruva and Arjun—and a daughter, Medha. In addition to English, Jaishankar speaks Tamil, Russian, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese and Hungarian.

Career

  • Joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1977
  • 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 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 the first secretary at the Indian embassy in Washington, D.C.
  • From 1988 to 1990, he served in Sri Lanka as First Secretary and political adviser to the Indian Peacekeeping Force(IPKF).
  • From 1990 to 1993, he was Counsellor (Commercial) at the Indian mission in Budapest.
  • Jaishankar was then Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian Embassy in Tokyo from 1996 to 2000.
  • In 2000, he was appointed India’s ambassador to the Czech Republic.
  • From 2004 to 2007, Jaishankar was Joint Secretary (Americas) at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. In this capacity, he was involved in negotiating the US-India civil nuclear agreement
  • In 2006–2007, Jaishankar led the Indian team during the negotiations on the 123 Agreement with the United States.

High Commissioner to Singapore

From 2007 to 2009, Jaishankar served as India’s High Commissioner to Singapore

Ambassador to China

Jaishankar was India's longest-serving ambassador to China, with a four-and-a-half year term. In Beijing, Jaishankar was involved in improving economic, trade and cultural relations between China and India, and in managing the Sino-Indian border dispute. In 2012, he became the first Indian ambassador in ten years to visit Tibet.

Ambassador to United States


A 2014 photo of Jaishankar with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington DC.
Jaishankar was appointed as India's Ambassador to United States in September 2013. He took charge on 23 December 2013 succeeding Nirupama Rao.
Jaishankar was involved in planning Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to the United States in September 2014, welcoming him upon his arrival and hosting a dinner in his honour for members of the Indian-American community.


Foreign Secretary of India


On left to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and on the right side is National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.
Jaishankar was appointed as Foreign Secretary of India on 29 January 2015. The announcement of his appointment was made following a 28 January 2015 meeting of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet chaired by the PM Narendra Modi. Jaishankar is widely credited by Nepalese analysts for being the "original planner of 2015 Nepal blockade"



Minister of External Affairs

On May 31, 2019, he was appointed to the Office of Minister of External Affairs. S. Jaishankar was sworn in as Cabinet minister on 30th May, 2019. He is currently the Minister of External Affairs for India. Jaishankar was inducted into the ministry even without contesting the elections to the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of the Indian Parliament or being a member of the Upper House (Rajya Sabha). He will need to be a member of Parliament within the next 6 months to remain a part of the Union Cabinet of India.
He succeeded Sushma Swaraj who was the External Affairs Minister in Narendra Modi's Government in his first stint. Sushma Swaraj did not contest the elections citing health reasons.

Source - Wikipedia, Internet

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