Nirupam Sen (1947 — 2 July 2017) was from the 1969 batch of the

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. His last posting prior to retirement was as

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to the

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. After retirement, he was appointed as Special Senior Adviser to the President of the UN General Assembly.

Career

Sen presented his credentials as

to the

on 17 September 2004. Prior to this appointment, Sen had been India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka. He has previously headed Indian missions in

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and

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and

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. His predecessor as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations was

Vijay K. Nambiar Chenicheri Vijay Nambiar (born August 1943) is a retired Indian diplomat and served as the UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Myanmar. He was Chef de Cabinet (Chief of Staff) under UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from 1 January 2007 to F ...

his successor is Hardeep Puri.

Death

Sen died in AMRI Hospitals,

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on 24 December 2018 at the age of 71.

References

External links

The United Nations list of current heads of missions. (PDF)''The Deccan Herald''
2017 deaths 1947 births Indian officials of the United Nations Permanent Representatives of India to the United Nations People from Kolkata Academic staff of the National Defence College, India {{India-diplomat-stub