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Foreign Secretary of India
Foreign Secretary of India
	Emblem of India
	Incumbent; Ranjan Mathai;
Residence	South Block, Secretariat Building, Raisina Hill, ; New Delhi, India
Appointer	Minister of External Affairs
Inaugural holder	K. P. S. Menon Senior
Formation	1958
Succession	Nirupama Rao
Website	Ministry of External Affairs

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An Indian Foreign Secretary is the top diplomat for Indian Foreign Relations, who is appointed in the Ministry of External Affairs Office. Foreign Secretaries are experienced IFS officers, who are ambassadors to foreign nations.

List of Indian Foreign Secretaries

Name	Took office	Left office	Minister of External Affairs
K.P.S. Menon	16 April 1948	21 September 1952
T. N. Kaul	7 November 1967	3 December 1972	Indira Gandhi, Dinesh Singh, Sardar Swaran Singh
M.K. Rasgotra	1 May 1982	31 January 1985	P V Narasimha Rao, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi
Romesh Bhandari	1 February 1985	31 March 1986	Rajiv Gandhi, Bali Ram Bhagat
A.P.Venkataeshwaran	1 April 1986	20 January 1987	Bali Ram Bhagat, P Shiv Shankar, Narayan Dutt Tiwari
S.K. Singh	16 February, 1989	19 April 1990	P V Narasimha Rao, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, I K Gujral
Muchukund Dubey			Inder Kumar Gujral
J.N. Dixit	1 December 1991	31 January 1994	Madhavsinh Solanki, P V Narasimha Rao, Dinesh Singh
Krishnan Srinivasan	1 February 1994	28 February 1995	Dinesh Singh, Pranab Mukherjee
Salman Haidar	1 March 1995	30 June 1997	Pranab Mukherjee, Sikander Bakht, I K Gujral
K. Raghunath	1 July 1997	1 December 1999	I K Gujral, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jaswant Singh
Lalit Mansingh	1 December 1999	11 March 2001	Jaswant Singh
Chokila Iyer^[1]	12 March 2001	29 June 2002	Jaswant Singh
Kanwal Sibal	1 July 2002	30 November 2003	Yashwant Sinha
Shashank	19 November 2003	31 July 2004	Yashwant Sinha, Natwar Singh
Shyam Saran	31 July 2004	1 September 2006	Natwar Singh, Dr. Manmohan Singh
Shiv Shankar Menon	1 September 2006	31 July 2009	Dr. Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, S. M. Krishna
Nirupama Rao	31 July 2009	31 July 2011	S. M. Krishna
Ranjan Mathai	1 August 2011	1 August 2013	S. M. Krishna

References

^ Nirupama Rao is India's new foreign secretary The Times of India, August 1, 2009."Chokila Iyer was first woman, Indian Foreign Secretary in 2001."

Indian Foreign Secretaries Listing

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