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Krishnan Srinivasan
Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General
In office 1995 – 2002
Indian Foreign Secretary
In office 01 February, 1994 – 28 February, 1995
Born	1937 Chennai
Occupation	Diplomat

Krishnan Srinivasan (b. 1937) is an Indian diplomat, scholar and the former Foreign Secretary of the Republic of India. As Foreign Secretary, he was the functional Head of the Indian Foreign Ministry and the highest ranking diplomat in the country. He was also the Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations in London for 7 years after he retired as Indian Foreign Secretary.

Contents 1 Diplomatic service 2 Distinctions 3 Published works 3.1 Non fiction 3.2 Fiction 4 References

[edit] Diplomatic service

He was born 1937 in Madras, India, was educated at Bedford School and Oxford University. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1959 and rose to become the Ambassador/High Commissioner to Zambia and Botswana, Nigeria, Benin and Cameroun, the Netherlands and Bangladesh. He concluded his career with the Government of India in 1995 after being appointed Secretary and finally Foreign Secretary. He was then appointed Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General (political) in London where he served until 2002.

[edit] Distinctions

He was a Member of Christ Church Oxford’s Senior Common Room and High Table from 1998, Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge (2002-05), Fellow of the Centre for International Studies Cambridge (2002-05), Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies London (2002-08), Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (2003-04), Fellow of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata from 2006, and Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at Uppsala in (2008). He was elected Honorary Professor at ASCI Hyderabad in 2005. He was awarded a Hind Ratna (India) in 2002, and was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Valeur (Cameroon) in 2007.

[edit] Published works

He is author of several books of non-fiction and fiction, and articles on international affairs.

[edit] Non fiction

• Tricks of the Trade (2000).
• The Rise, Decline and Future of the British Commonwealth. Hardback (2005). Paperback (2008).
• The Jamdani Revolution; Politics, Personalities and Civil Society in Bangladesh (2007).
• Towards the New Horizon: World Order in the 21st Century (2009)

[edit] Fiction

• The Eccentric Effect (2001).
• The Ugly Ambassador (2003).
• Guesswork (2005).

[edit] References

• Who's Who, A & C Black, London 2008;
• The International Who's Who, 2008, Routledge, London 2007.