Krishnan Srinivasan

Krishnan Srinivasan (born 1937 in Madras, India) 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. Srinivasan 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...