Until the beginning of this month, Vikram Misri, who has served as India’s special envoy to China for nearly three years, has been appointed as the next deputy national security adviser.
He will replace Pankaj Saran, the former Special Envoy of India to Russia and Bangladesh, who resigned on December 31.
Misri was in Beijing during one of the most challenging phases of India-China relations because the border standoff has lasted for more than 19 months. Misri, an IFS officer in 1989, will bring his foreign policy expertise to this position and will report to the National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval. The other two Deputy Directors of the National Security Agency are Rajender Khanna and Datta Pandsalgikar. Misri, 57, worked in the Prime Minister’s Office in the past and worked with three prime ministers-I K Gujral, Manmohan Singh, and briefly Narendra Modi.
As a professional diplomat, Misri served as the personal secretary of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from October 2012 to May 2014. He also served as the personal secretary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from May 2014 to July 2014.
From November 1996 to April 1997, he also served as Deputy Secretary in the office of I K Gujral, when Gujral was Minister of Foreign Affairs. From April 1997 to March 1998, when Gujral became prime minister, he became his personal secretary.
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