On 24 January 2005, the recently appointed High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom HE Mr Kamalesh Sharma, gave a presentation on ‘India and Global Challenges’. The meeting was chaired by Dr Gary Samore, IISS Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation.
Mr Sharma was appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom on 1 August 2004, after a long and distinguished career in the Indian Foreign Service. He served as India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva from 1988, followed by appointments as Ambassador to Germany and Kazakhstan. In 1997, Mr Sharma was appointed as India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, where he served until retirement from the foreign service in May 2002. Subsequently, he was appointed as the Representative of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to East Timor until June 2004. In 1984, Mr. Sharma spent a year at Harvard University on sabbatical.
