Navdeep Suri, who recently served as Indian consul general in Johannesburg, has also served in Cairo, Damascus, Dar es Salam, London and Washington. His expertise is in issues of development and the African continent. He speaks Arabic and French fluently.
Mr. Suri has been appointed to a new and exciting job within the foreign ministry: creating India’s first public diplomacy initiative. At Gateway House, Mr. Suri spoke about the new initiative, and about India’s evolving and increasingly pragmatic foreign policy and its relevance to India’s youth.