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Syed Akbaruddin is a retired Indian civil servant from 1985 batch of the
Indian Foreign Service The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is the diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vinay Mohan Kwatra is the 34th and the ...
and served as India's permanent representative at the
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at New York from January 2016 to April 2020. He had previously served as official spokesperson of India's Ministry of External Affairs from January 2012 to April 2015 and was Indian representative at
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from 2006 to 2011. He is currently serving as the
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of Kautilya School of Public Policy.


Career

Akbaruddin is a 1985 batch
Indian Foreign Service The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is the diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vinay Mohan Kwatra is the 34th and the ...
officer. In his distinguished career spanning over 34 years, Akbaruddin has served in different capacities in India and abroad, starting his first foreign assignment in
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where he also learned
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. He also served twice in
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; in
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from 1988 to 1992 and in
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from 2000 to 2004 as
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of India and he is rightly considered an expert on the
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issues in India. At the
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in
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, he was on deputation for four years and returned to India in 2011. He was the director at the
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's Office of the Ministry from 2004 to 2005. Akbaruddin was the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of
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from January 2012 to April 2015 and was succeeded by
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. He headed the External Publicity and Public Diplomacy division of the Ministry in the capacity of
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. He was also the chief coordinator for the India-Africa Summit in October 2015. He was later Additional Secretary in the Ministry from April 2015 to September 2015. In November 2015, Akbaruddin was appointed as India's permanent representative to the
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in New York, succeeding
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.


PR to the UN

Akbaruddin presented his credentials to
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on January 25, 2016. He has been praised inside his country and abroad for his exceptional skills at multilateral forums, protecting India's interest and setting new standards of multilateral diplomacy. His work at the
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against
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,
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and towards international peace has been unparalleled to any of his predecessors. He has been credited for blacklisting of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the
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. On the climate front, Akbaruddin has presented India as leader and not a follower at the United Nations, by setting examples such as the inauguration of a 50-kilowatt 'Gandhi Solar Park' by
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was a first of its kind effort by India at the UN. India's strong commitment to UN
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has been acknowledged by the top UN officials also that UN Development Programme Administrator
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says that he is simply in awe of how India is proceeding on its fascinating journey towards meeting its
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.


Personal life

Syed Akbaruddin was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana State) on 27 April 1960 to Professor Syed Bashiruddin, formerly the head of the Department of Journalism and Communication at Osmania University, who headed the department for many years and served as Indian ambassador to
Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...
, vice-chancellor of Dr B R Ambedkar Open University and director of the research wing of the
Film and Television Institute of India The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India. It is situated on the premises of the erstwhile ...
in Pune, and Prof. (Dr.) Zeba Bashiruddin, who was a Professor in the English department at
Sri Sathya Sai University Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning is a ''deemed-to-be-University'' located in Sri Sathya Sai District, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was founded by Sri Sathya Sai Baba on 22 November 1981. There are four campuses of the university, three ...
, Prasanthi Nilayam campus. She had also authored 2 books on Sathya Sai Baba. Syed Akbaruddin studied at
Hyderabad Public School The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet (HPS, Begumpet) is a privately funded public school in Hyderabad, Telangana State, India. Children are schooled from the pre-primary stage to the 12th standard (ages 3 to 17). The school is affiliated with ...
. He holds a Master's Degree in Politics and International Relations.


See also

* Natwar Singh *
Vijay Keshav Gokhale Vijay Keshav Gokhale IFS, born 24 January 1959, is a retired Indian diplomat and the 32nd Foreign Secretary of India. Gokhale previously served as the Ambassador of India to China. Personal life & education Gokhale hails from Pune. He did his sc ...
*
Harsh Vardhan Shringla Harsh Vardhan Shringla (born 1962) is Chief Coordinator for India’s G20 Presidency in 2023. He has previously served as Foreign Secretary of India, Ambassador to USA, High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Ambassador to Thailand.
* Indians in New York


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Akbaruddin, Syed Living people Indian Foreign Service officers Ambassadors of India to Qatar 20th-century Indian Muslims 21st-century Indian Muslims Permanent Representatives of India to the United Nations 1960 births