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Meera Shankar (9 October 1950) is India’s Ambassador (2009-) to the United States of America  and India’s second female ambassador to the United States of America, Vijayalakshmi Nehru Pundit was the first ambassador to United States of America.
Shankar, an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1973 batch was posted in Washington from 1991 to 1995. She succeeds Ambassador Ronen Sen. She studied at the reputed St.Mary’s Convent in Nainital.
Shankar served as Director in the Prime Minister’s Office from 1985 to 1991; She served in the Ministry of Commerce from 1991 to 1995. She served in the Ministry of External Affairs, she headed two important divisions dealing with the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and relations with Nepal and Bhutan.
Meera Shankar is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1973 batch who was posted in Washington from 1991 to 1995. Shankar will be the first serving diplomat to be posted in Washington in more than two decades after K. Shankar Bajpai. After Vijayalaxmi Pandit, who served as envoy between 1949 and 1951, she will be India’s second lady ambassador to the United States of America.
In 2003, she achieved the rank of Additional Secretary, she held the responsibility for the United Nations and International Security.
Meera Shankar is married and has a daughter.
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