T.S. Tirumurti

Ambassador TS Tirumurti was a career Indian diplomat with a career spanning 37 years between 1985-2022. He served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York between 2020-2022. He was President of the UN Security Council for August 2021. Prior to this, he was the Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs handling inter alia Gulf and Arab World, Africa, economic relations and India’s development partnership. 

Ambassador Tirumurti has previously served in Cairo, Geneva, Washington DC, and Jakarta. He was also in Gaza as the first Indian Representative to the Palestinian Authority. He was India’s High Commissioner to Malaysia. At the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, Mr. Tirumurti served as Under Secretary (Bhutan), Director (Foreign Secretary’s Office), Joint Secretary for four neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Maldives, and Joint Secretary (United Nations Economic and Social). He has also been India's negotiator in Climate Change for several years. Ambassador Tirumurti is currently Distinguished Professor in IIT Madras. He is also on the Board of Governors of the Dhirubhai Ambani University. He is the author of three books.