On Thursday 13 July 2006 Ambassador Jayant Prasad, India's Ambassador and Permament Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, will speak on "India and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime".
Ambassador Prasad has been India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva since March 2004. Currently he is also a Member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. Previously he served as the Head of the Americas Division in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi, India's Ambassador to Algeria, Staff Officer for the Foreign Secretary and First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in Geneva.
Ambassador Prasad was a Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University (1998-99) and Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva (1986-87). Educated at the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Ambassador Prasad taught modern Indian history for two years at St Stephen's College in Delhi before entering the Indian Foreign Service in 1976.
The talk will be held at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX.
The talk will begin at 3pm and conclude at 4pm and questiones will be welcome from the floor.
If you would like to attend this meeting please contact
Ms Nayantara Kothari at 020 7395 9142 or kothari@iiss.org
