Menon, Shanker

Shivshankar Menon is a retired Indian diplomat and statesman of Indian Foreign Service who served as the 4th National Security Advisor of India to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He had previously served as the Foreign Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. Prior to that he was Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, and Sri Lanka and ambassador to China and Israel. He is Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress. He is also a Visiting Professor of International Relations at Ashoka University.