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    Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician and former UN diplomat who has had a varied career in government, international organizations, and writing. He currently serves as a Member of Parliament in India's Lok Sabha and chairs the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs. Previously he held ministerial positions in the Indian government and served for nearly 30 years at the United Nations in refugee work and leadership roles, including as Under-Secretary General. Tharoor is also an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction.

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    Contact
    Shashi Tharoor
    www.linkedin.com/in/shashitharoor Member of Parliament, India, and Chairman of the Parliamentary
    (LinkedIn) Committee for External Affairs
    Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
    Top Skills
    Public Speaking Summary
    Public Policy
    An author, politician, and former international civil servant, Shashi
    Diplomacy
    Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a
    second-term Lok Sabha MP representing the Thiruvananthapuram
    Languages
    constituency and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing
    English (Native or Bilingual)
    Committee on External Affairs, he has previously served as Minister
    Malayalam (Native or Bilingual)
    of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State
    French (Full Professional)
    for External Affairs in the Government of India. In his prior career at
    the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker,
    Honors-Awards
    and administrator at the highest levels, serving as Under-Secretary
    Encomienda de la Real Order
    Espanola de Carlos III General during Kofi Annan’s leadership of the organisation. Dr.
    New Age Politician of the Year Tharoor is also an award-winning author of 15 works of both fiction
    Hakim Khan Sur Award for National as well as non-fiction.
    Integration
    Pravasi Bharatiya Samman In 1998 the World Economic Forum in Davos named him a “Global
    Honorary D.Litt Leader of Tomorrow”. He is also a recipient of several awards that
    include a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Pravasi Bharatiya
    Publications Samman, India’s highest honour for overseas nationals. In 2012
    India Shastra: Reflections on the the King of Spain awarded him the Encomienda de la Real Order
    Nation in our Time (2015)
    Espanola de Carlos III. Among numerous other awards are one
    India: From Midnight to the
    Millennium and Beyond for "New Age Politician of the Year" from NDTV, the Hakim Khan
    Nehru: The Invention of India Sur Award for National Integration, and the Priyadarshini Award for
    The Five Dollar Smile and Other Excellence in Diplomacy.
    Stories
    Kerala: God's Own Country In addition, Dr. Tharoor writes for a range of online and print
    publications including maintaining regular columns for Project
    Syndicate, The Quint, The Week and NDTV.

    Prior to embarking on his political career, Shashi Tharoor also


    served on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and
    Diplomacy, the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute, and the
    Advisory Boards of the Indo-American Arts Council, the American
    India Foundation and the World Policy Journal. Dr. Tharoor was
    an International Adviser to the International Committee of the Red

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    Cross in Geneva. He was also a Fellow of the New York Institute of


    the Humanities, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Hague
    Institute for International Justice.

    Experience
    Indian National Congress
    Member Of Parliament Lok Sabha
    May 2009 - Present (11 years)
    Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

    Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India


    Union Minister of State
    2012 - 2014 (2 years)
    New Delhi

    Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India


    Union Minister of State
    2009 - 2010 (1 year)
    New Delhi

    United Nations
    Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information
    2001 - 2007 (6 years)
    New York, USA

    United Nations
    Executive Assistant to Secretary General
    1997 - 2000 (3 years)
    New York, USA

    United Nations
    Special Assistant to Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping
    1989 - 1996 (7 years)
    New York, USA

    UNHCR
    Deputy Chief and Secretary
    1985 - 1989 (4 years)

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    UNHCR
    6 years

    Head, Singapore Office


    1981 - 1984 (3 years)

    Public Informations Officer


    1978 - 1981 (3 years)

    Education
    Tufts University - The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), International Relations and Affairs · (1977 - 1978)

    Tufts University - The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy


    Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D)  · (1976 - 1977)

    Tufts University - The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy


    Master of Arts (M.A.)  · (1975 - 1976)

    St. Stephen's College


    Bachelor of Arts, (Hons)  · (1972 - 1975)

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