Vinod Kumar Grover is a former Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs of India.[1]

Career

Grover entered the Foreign Service in 1961 and retired in 1996.[2]

In 1982, as High Commissioner to Kenya, Grover signed an India-Kenya credit pact on behalf of the Indian government.[3] From August 1984 until February 1989 he was Indian ambassador to Turkey.[4]

In 1991, while serving as Indian ambassador to the Netherlands, Grover was one of the "22 leading figures from 18 countries" – "individuals with experience in international arbitration, reputations for creativity in problem solving, and general influence in the international legal community" – to sit on the Working Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.[5]

In 2005, Grover was one of four special envoys appointed by the Indian government in its bid to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.[6] In 2006 he was appointed to the National Security Advisory Board.[7]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Leading News Resource of Pakistan". Daily Times. 1 December 2005. Archived from the original on 13 July 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Amb. V.K. Grover". Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Kenya and India sign credit pact", Daily Nation, December 27, 1982.
  4. ↑ http://www.indembassy.org.tr/cgi.php?id=AmbTurkey
  5. ↑ J. L. Bleich, "A New Direction for the PCA: The Work of the Expert Group", in The Flame Rekindled: New Hopes for International Arbitration, edited by A. Sam Muller and Wim Mijs (Dordrecht, Boston and London, 1994), p. 19.
  6. ↑ T.R. Ramachandran, Diplomatic blitzkrieg for UN seat, The Tribune, April 22, 2005.
  7. ↑ National Security Advisory Board reconstituted, The Hindu, August 13, 2006.


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