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MRS. VIJAY THAKUR SINGH

Director General, ICWA

Mrs. Vijay Thakur Singh holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Himachal
Pradesh University. She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1985. Her first posting
was in the Embassy of India in Madrid, Spain, where she later went as Deputy Chief
of Mission in 2006. She worked in the Ministry of External Affairs from 1989 to
1999, handling India’s relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan. She was posted as
Counsellor in the Embassy of India in Kabul from 2003 to 2005.
She has had multilateral experience, particularly in economic and environmental
issues. She was Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the United
Nations in New York from 2000 to 2003. She has served as Joint Secretary to the
President of India from August 2007 to August 2012 and as Joint Secretary at the
National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) from 2012 to 2013. She has been High
Commissioner of India to Singapore from 2013 to 2016 and Ambassador of India to
Ireland from 2016 to 2018.
For two years from 2018, she was Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs
and retired in September 2020. She assumed charge as Director General, Indian
Council of World Affairs on 26 July 2021.

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