Date of birth: 9 October 1950
Meera Shankar is India’s Ambassador (2009-) to the United States of America and India’s second female ambassador to the United States of America, Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit being the first.
Shankar, an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1973 batch, was posted in Washington DC from 1991 to 1995. She succeeds Ambassador Ronen Sen. She studied at the reputed St.Mary’s Convent in Nainital. Continue Reading

