Bagchee

K. Natwar Singh

K. Natwar Singh was born in 1931. he was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, Scindia School, Gwalior, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1953, he joined the Indian Foreign Service. For the next thirty-one years he served in Peking, New York, Warsaw, London, Lusaka and Islamabad. He was Ambassador to Pakistan – 1980-1982, Secretary General of the Seventh NAM Summit – 1983. The same year he was Chief Coordinator for the Commonwealth Summit. In 1984 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. After resigning from the I.F.S., he joined the Congress Party and was elected to the Lok Sabha in December 1984. he was the Union Minister for Steel, Fertilizers and External Affairs from 1984 to 1989. He was attached to Indira Gandhi’s Secretariat from 1966 to 1971. In 1987, he was elected President of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament and Development, and was leader of the Indian Delegation to the 42nd Session of the U.N. General Assembly. In 1998 he was again elected to the Lok Sabha. In 2002 he became a member of the Rajya Sabha. Since May 2004 he is Minister of External Affairs.