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Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Wiki, Biography, Age, Images, Family & More

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5 years ago

July 12, 2019

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Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian external affairs minister native to Tamil Nadu. In 1977, he began his career as a secretary in Indian Foreign Service. He was also appointed as an Indian ambassador to Singapore in 2007, Czech Republic, China (First Indian ambassador) and the United States in 2013. S. Jaishankar is one of the notable officers who greatly handled Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement in 2006. He also worked for a private sector firm named Tata Sons.

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Biography

Name	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Real Name	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Nickname	Jai
Profession	Indian Minister of External Affairs
Date of Birth	15 January 1955
Age	64 (as of 2019)
Zodiac sign	Capricorn
Family	Father: K. Subrahmanyan (Civil Service Officer) Mother: Sulochana
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	Kyoko Jaishankar
Wife	Kyoko Jaishankar
Children	Son: Arjun Jaishankar, Dhruva Jaishankar (Author) Daughter: Medha Jaishankar Brothers: Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Historian) and S Vijay Kumar (Former Rural Development Secretary of India)
Religion	Hindu
Educational Qualification	School: Air Force Central School, New Delhi College: BA degree St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi MA, MPhil, PhD degree Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Hobbies	Reading and Travelling
Birth Place	Delhi, India
Hometown	Delhi, India
Current City	Delhi, India
Nationality	Indian

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Interesting facts about Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Subrahmanyam is a awrdee of Padma Sri which was issued in 2019 by government of India.
He is also a former Singapore High Commissioner.
He is a former special assistant of G. Parthasarathi (Diplomat).
In 1988, he was appointed as a secretary and political adviser of Indian Peacekeeping Force Srilanka unit.
He served in Budapest as a counsellor of Indian mission.
Jaishankar worked as speechwriter and press secretary of ninth Indian president Shankar Dayal Sharma.
Tokyo based Indian Embassy’s deputy chief post was handed to him at 1996.
He works as Foreign Secretary (in US), undersecretary (in US), director (in East Europe), Joint Secretary (in US) for Indian ministry of external affairs.
In 2015, Indian government appointed him as a Foreign Secretary.
He is the first person who was appointed as an Indian mission secretary in Moscow and for the Indian Embassy in US.
Jaishankar can speak seven languages. They are English, Tamil, Hindi, Hungarian, Mandarin, Russian and Japanese.