Vijay Keshav Gokhale named as next Foreign Secretary

Diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale, considered an expert on China, was named the next Foreign Secretary. He will succeed S. Jaishankar, who completes his extended tenure later this month.

Gokhale, a 1981-batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is known to have played a key role in India-China negotiations last year to resolve the 73-day standoff between Indian Army and Chinese People's Liberation Army at Doklam Plateau, a trijunction between Sino-India and Bhutanese border near Sikkim.

58-year-old Gokhale, who is at present Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, was India's Ambassador to China from January 20, 2016 to October 21, 2017....Read More