Kamalesh Sharma
Kamalesh Sharma ( Hindi : कमलेश शर्मा) (born September 30, 1941 ) is an Indian diplomat and former Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations .
biography
Sharma studied after school at St. Stephen's College in Delhi and at King's College in Cambridge and entered the diplomatic service in 1965 . From 1997 to 2002 he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York City . Afterwards he was from May 21, 2002 to May 21, 2004 as special envoy of the UN Secretary General in East Timor . Most recently, he was the High Commissioner in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2008 .
On April 1, 2008, he was elected Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations to succeed Donald McKinnon , making him the first Indian to hold a leading position in this union of sovereign states, which is primarily formed by the United Kingdom and its former colonies . In the election at the summit of the Commonwealth of Nations in Kampala in November 2007 , he prevailed against the then Maltese Foreign Minister Michael Frendo . On April 1, 2016, he was replaced by Patricia Scotland .
Since July 2009, he has also been Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast, succeeding former US Senator George J. Mitchell .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ United Nations Information Service, April 5, 2002
- ^ Queen receives Secretary-General at Buckingham Palace. May 4, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016 .
- ↑ rulers.org
Ian Martin (1999) | Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1999-2002) | Kamalesh Sharma (2002-2004) | Sukehiro Hasegawa (2004-2006) | Atul Khare (2006-2009) | Ameerah Haq (2009–2012) | Finn Reske-Nielsen (2012)
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| SURNAME | Sharma, Kamalesh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian diplomat and Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1941 |