Director General
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Shri Sudhir T Devare |
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Indian Council of World Affairs |
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| Profile |
Joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1964.
Served in India’s missions in Moscow, Washington, Sikkim.
Deputy Permanent Representative to the Committee on Disarmament, Geneva, 1976-80
Minister-Counsellor at the Embassy
of India in Myanmar (Burma), 1980-82
Consul General of India in Frankfurt, Germany
Joint Secretary in Ministry of External Affairs dealing with relations with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma and Maldives during 1982-85.
Ambassador of India to South Korea (1985-89)
First Indian Ambassador to the newly formed Republics of Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia, (1992-94)
Ambassador of India to Indonesia (1994-1998)
Secretary (Permanent), Ministry of
External Affairs, Government of India,
New Delhi from 1998 till retirement
in 2001.
Prime Minister’s Personal Representative to G-15, a grouping of emerging economies from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Leader of Indian official-level delegations
to the conferences of Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
and India,
ASEAN Regional Forum,
G77 (Group of Developing Countries
in United Nations in New York), Indian
Ocean Rim-Association for Regional
Cooperation, BIMSTEC etc.
Member of Indian Ministerial delegations to the WTO (World Trade Organization) conferences in Geneva and Seattle.
As Secretary in MEA, was closely associated with India’s ‘Look East’ policy initiative with the Asia-Pacific.
Since 2001----
Member, National Security Advisory Board, Govt. of India (2001-03);
2002-2006 Vice-Chairman, Research and Information System (RIS) of Developing Countries, New Delhi
2002-2006 Member, India Chapter of Council for Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific(C-SCAP)
Invited to CSCAP Conference in Jakarta, December, 2007 as a Keynote speaker.
2002- Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for East Asian Studies, New Delhi.
2003-06 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
2007-08 Fellow, Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, Harvard
University, Cambridge, U.S.A
Member, Eminent Persons' and Experts'
Group, ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF);
Publications:
1) A book authored by him, titled
‘India and Southeast Asia:
Towards Security Convergence’
was published in 2006 by the Institute
of Southeast Asian Studies, (ISEAS)
Singapore and Capital Publishing Co.
Delhi. The book has been reviewed
by newspapers and journals in India
and abroad.
2) A book edited by him titled 'A
New Energy Frontier: the Bay of Bengal
region' was published by ISEAS,
Singapore in 2008 & Manohar Publishers,
Delhi 2009.
3) An article on Myanmar written by
him was published by the Harvard Asia
Pacific Review in 2008
4) A monograph 'On the Chessboard
of the Asia-Pacific: India and the
Inter-Play of Major Powers' was circulated
by the Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs, Harvard University on their
website.
5 ) Chapters written by Shri Devare
on India's relations with East and
Southeast Asia have been published
in a number of books and journals
in India and abroad.
6 ) Articles written by him have been
published in newspapers.
Languages - English, Hindi, Marathi,
Russian and French.
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