Meera Shankar | |
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 Meera Shankar at the U.S.-India People to People Conference in 2010 | |
| Born | Meera Yadav 9 October 1950 |
| Ambassador of India to the United States | |
| In office 2009–2011 | |
| Preceded by | Ronen Sen |
| Succeeded by | Nirupama Rao |
Meera Shankar (née Yadav) served as India's Ambassador to the United States of America[1] from 26 April 2009[2] to 2011. She was India's second female ambassador to the United States of America, Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit being the first. She was succeeded by Nirupama Rao on 1 August 2011.
Shankar, an officer of the 1973 batch, was posted in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1995. She succeeded Ambassador Ronen Sen.
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- ^ "Welcome to Embassy of India, Washington D C, USA". Indian Embassy, Washington. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.