On 13 July 2006, the IISS hosted a Special Round Table Discussion with Ambassador Jayant Prasad, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva. Ambassador Prasad spoke on ‘India and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation’. The Round Table Discussion was chaired by Sir Michael Quinlan, Consulting Senior Fellow at IISS for the South Asia Programme.
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.
