Biography of Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

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BIOGRAPHY OF SUBRAHMANYAM
JAISHANKAR

STUDENTS NAME:- KISHAN M. SINDHAV


(210470119509)

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ABOUT S. JAISHANKAR

• Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (born 9 January 1955)


is an Indian diplomat who is serving as the
Minister of External Affairs of the Government of
India since 30 May 2019.
• He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
• He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha
since 5 July 2019, representing Gujarat.
• He has previously served as the Foreign Secretary
from January 2015[1][2] to January 2018.

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EARLY LIFE:-

• S Jaishankar was born in New Delhi.


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).

• In addition to English, Jaishankar speaks Tamil,


Russian, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese and
Hungarian.

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DIPLOMATIC CAREER

• He joined Indian Foreign Service in 1977.


• He had previously served as Indian Ambassador
to the United States (2014–2015), 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.

POLITICAL CAREER

• 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.
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.

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Political career

• On 31 May 2019, he was appointed to the Office


of Minister of External Affairs. Jaishankar was sworn in
as Cabinet minister on 30 May 2019.
• On 5 July 2019, he was elected as Member of
Parliament from Bharatiya Janata Party to the Rajya
Sabha from Gujarat state.
• He succeeded late 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

PERSONAL LIFE

• On retirement, Jaishankar joined Tata Sons as the


President, Global Corporate Affairs.[4] In 2019, he was
conferred with Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian
honour.
• Jaishankar is married to Kyoko, who is of Japanese origin
and has two sons.

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FOREIGN SECRETARY

• 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.

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