Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference Call

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call with Nirupama Menon Rao, focusing on “India and Great-Power Rivalry.”

About the Speaker
Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired Indian diplomat, foreign secretary, and ambassador. During her four-decade-long diplomatic career, she held several important assignments. She was India’s first woman spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi; the first woman high commissioner from her country to Sri Lanka; and the first Indian woman ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. Ambassador Rao holds an honorary doctor of letters degree from Pondicherry University in India.