India's New Envoy Arun Singh Presents Credentials To Obama

He served as India's ambassador to France from April, 2013 to April, 2015. Before that Singh served as India's ambassador to Israel from April 2005 to September, 2008 and then deputy chief of mission in Washington from Oct 2008 to April 2013.

He served in the Indian mission at Moscow again as counsellor/minister from 1997-2000.

During his assignment in Delhi from 2000-2005, he served in the capacity of joint secretary dealing first with the UN policy, and then Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran divisions at the external affairs ministry.

Singh has also served at India's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York from 1993-1997 as counsellor and handled multilateral social and economic negotiations.

Singh speaks Russian and Japanese and has some knowledge of French and Hebrew. He is married to Maina Chawla Singh. They have one daughter.

Singh joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1979 after completing his Masters degree in Economics from Delhi University and teaching at the university for two years.
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