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Nirupama Menon Rao (born 6 December 1950) is a retired civil servant of 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011, as well as being India's Ambassador to the United States, China and Sri Lanka (High Commissioner) during her career.
My parents were very forward-looking and wanted their daughters to do as well as the sons of their friends and colleagues. My dream from the age of 12 was to join the Indian Foreign Service. I took the Civil Service Examination as soon as I was eligible to do so, at the age of 21.
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Bio-profile of Ambassador Nirupama Rao. Mrs. Nirupama Rao assumed her responsibilities as Ambassador of India to the United States in September 2011. On completion of her University studies, and with an M.A. in English Literature, she joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1973.
Born in Kerala, India, Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired Indian diplomat, Foreign Secretary and Ambassador. She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1973. During her four-decade-long diplomatic career she held several important assignments.
Feb 1, 2022 · Nirupama Rao, a former Foreign Secretary of India, unknots this complex saga of the early years of the India-China relationship in her new book, The Fractured Himalaya. As a diplomat-practitioner, Rao’s telling is based not only on archival material from India, China, Britain and the United States, but also on a deep personal knowledge of ...
Aug 16, 2022 · Nirupama Rao is a former Indian Foreign Service officer. She retired as Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, the senior most position in the Foreign Service, being the second woman to occupy the post (2009-2011). She was the first woman spokesperson (2001-02) of the Indian foreign office.
