predecessor successor birth_place office primeminister term term_start residence birth_date image article_title term_end name occupation
m k narayanan shyam saran ajit kumar doval nirupama rao ottapalam now kerala , india -rrb- , madras state , dominion of india -lrb- 4th india national security adviser of india foreign secretary of manmohan singh 1 october 2006 -- 31 july 2009 17 january 2010 new delhi , india 5 july 1949 msc2011 sz 004 menon -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpg shivshankar menon
 28 may 2014 shivshankar menon diplomat , civil servant
shivshankar menon

shivshankar menon -lrb- born 5 july 1949 -rrb- is an indian diplomat , who served as national security adviser to prime minister manmohan singh .
he had previously served as the foreign secretary , the top diplomat in india .
prior to that he was indian high commissioner to pakistan , and sri lanka and ambassador to china and israel .
