Nirupama Rao appointed public policy fellow at US thinktank

Former Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who also served as the Indian envoy to China, has been appointed a public policy fellow at a thinktank in the US where she will work on a project on the Sino-India ties.
Rao will be affiliated with the Wilson Centre's Asia programme and spend three months in residence at the Wilson Centre, a key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues, beginning in June.
"She will be working on a book project on the India-China relationship and will be contributing to the Wilson Centre's activities on India, including its India in Asia Initiative," the Wilson Centre said.

The 66-year-old former Indian diplomat was India's first woman ambassador to China and its first woman spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs.
She also served as India's foreign secretary from 2009 to 2011. Following her retirement from public service, Rao received an appointment as Meera and Vikram Gandhi fellow at the India Initiative at the Brown University.
She taught at an undergraduate seminar at the Brown University called 'India in the World'.
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