India's security challenges - Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Neighbourhood
Speaker : Ambassador Chinmaya R. Gharekhan Government of India's Special Envoy for West Asia and the Middle East Peace Process
Date : Monday 4 May 2009, 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Location : APCD Boardroom, 2nd Floor, Hedley Bull Centre, Building 130, Corner
Liversidge & Garran Rds, The Australian National University
A retired Indian career diplomat, Mr. Chinmaya R. Gharekhan was appointed Special Envoy for West Asia and the Middle East Peace Process by the government in February 2005.
Mr. Gharekhan has had a distinguished diplomatic career, in the course of which he served as India's Permanent Representative to the UN in New York (including as India's representative to the Security Council), India's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva and Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office. He held diplomatic postings in Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Laos, Vietnam and former Yugoslavia.
After retiring from the Indian Foreign Service in 1992, Mr. Gharekhan served as Under Secretary General in the UN, first as the UN Secretary General's Personal Representative to the Security Council and then as UN Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories.
Gharekhan was elected President of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts in June 2007 for a ten year term.
For further information, please contact:
Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, T: 6125 7983,
E: ExecutiveOfficer.APCD@anu.edu.au |
