University to welcome Indian Ambassador to United States

Nirupama Menon Rao is the current Ambassador of India to the United States of America. She first came into office in August 2011. Before Menon Rao served as ambassador she held the position of Foreign Secretary of India for two years.

She is the second woman to have served as Indian Foreign Secretary, having succeeded Chokila Iye.

Menon Rao has also served in positions such as Minister of Press Affairs in Washington, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson (the first woman to do so), Chief of Personnel, Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow, High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, and Ambassador to Peru and China.

Menon Rao has also been noted in terms of her writing, as she has written a book of poetry called “Rain Rising.” EVENT Indo-U.S. Relations: Where We Stand,Where Are We Headed?

FEATURING  Nirupama Menon Rao, Indian Ambassador to the United States

WHEN 5 p.m. Feb. 2

WHERE Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union

STAY AFTER the reception to follow at 6 p.m. at the University Club in the Indiana Memorial Union

FOR INQUIRIES  email ovpia@indiana.edu

Event free to public.

— Michael Majchrowicz