A day after S Jaishankar was sworn-as in as a Union Cabinet minister, the former Foreign Secretary on Friday, 31 May, was given the charge of External Affairs ministry.
With this latest accomplishment, he became the first foreign secretary to head the MEA as minister.
A graduate of St Stephen's College, Jaishankar has an MA in Political Science and an MPhil and PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
A 1977 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service, Jaishankar was the longest serving foreign secretary in four decades and was conferred Padma awards by President Ram Nath Kovind in March.
He retired from the position of foreign secretary in late January 2018 – a post for which it is said that he was personally picked by Modi in 2015.
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