16 Facts About Syed Akbaruddin

Syed Akbaruddin is a retired Indian diplomat from 1985 batch of the Indian Foreign Service and served as India's permanent representative at the United Nations at New York from January 2016 to April 2020.

Syed Akbaruddin had previously served as official spokesperson of India's Ministry of External Affairs from January 2012 to April 2015 and was Indian representative at IAEA from 2006 to 2011.

Syed Akbaruddin is currently serving as the dean of Kautilya School of Public Policy.

Syed Akbaruddin served twice in Saudi Arabia; in Riyadh from 1988 to 1992 and in Jeddah from 2000 to 2004 as consul-general of India and he is rightly considered an expert on the West Asia issues in India.

Syed Akbaruddin was the director at the Foreign Secretary's Office of the Ministry from 2004 to 2005.

Syed Akbaruddin was the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of India from January 2012 to April 2015 and was succeeded by Vikas Swarup.

Syed Akbaruddin headed the External Publicity and Public Diplomacy division of the Ministry in the capacity of Joint Secretary to Government of India.

Syed Akbaruddin was the chief coordinator for the India-Africa Summit in October 2015.

Syed Akbaruddin was later Additional Secretary in the Ministry from April 2015 to September 2015.

In November 2015, Syed Akbaruddin was appointed as India's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, succeeding Asoke Kumar Mukerji.

Syed Akbaruddin presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 25 January 2016.

Syed Akbaruddin has been praised inside his country and abroad for his exceptional skills at multilateral forums, protecting India's interest and setting new standards of multilateral diplomacy.

Syed Akbaruddin has been credited for blacklisting of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council.

Syed Akbaruddin was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh on 27 April 1960 to Professor Syed Bashiruddin, formerly the head of the Department of Journalism and Communication at Osmania University, who headed the department for many years and served as Indian ambassador to Qatar, vice-chancellor of Dr B R Ambedkar Open University and director of the research wing of the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, and Prof.

Syed Akbaruddin had authored 2 books on Sathya Sai Baba.

Syed Akbaruddin holds a Master's Degree in Politics and International Relations.