Shiv Shankar Mukherjee is an
Indian civil servant
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...
and was the
High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2009.
He is a 1971 batch officer of the
Indian Foreign Service. Before he held the position in the United Kingdom he served as
ambassador
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...
to
Nepal from 2004.
Other prior appointments include work as High Commissioner to South Africa, as ambassador to Egypt and as High Commissioner to Namibia.
References
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High Commissioners of India to the United Kingdom
Indian Foreign Service officers
Ambassadors of India to Nepal
Delhi University alumni
High Commissioners of India to Namibia