He has held key diplomatic assignments in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and he has served as manager of India’s successful campaign for the position of Commonwealth Secretary-General out of London and as a senior member of the Indian team in the UN Security Council in New York. He was the first employee of India’s Development Partnership Administration created in 2012. He later worked, as Joint Secretary in the Government of India, to kick-start one of India’s most innovative diplomatic projects – the ambitious $500 million Nalanda University. In addition to a medical degree, he has a M.A. in Public Administration and has been a Fellow at the Center of Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, and a Visiting Professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky.