New High Commissioner has presented her credentials to H.E. Major General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC, Governor-General of Australia'

25/10/2007

H.E. Mrs. Sujatha Singh, High Commissioner of India to Australia, presented her Credentials to His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, on 25 October 2007.

H.E. Mrs. Singh was posted as Additional Secretary in charge of the West Europe Division before coming to Australia.

MRS. SUJATHA SINGH
HIGH COMMISSIONER
HIGH COMMISSION OF INDIA,
CANBERRA

Mrs. Sujatha Singh was born in July 1954 and joined the Indian Foreign Service in July 1976

Her overseas assignments have been as Second Secretary in Embassy of India, Bonn (1978-82), First Secretary, High Commission of India, Accra (1985-89), Counsellor, Embassy of India, Paris (1989-92), Deputy Chief of Mission and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP at Embassy of India, Bangkok (1997-2000) and Consul General of India at Milan (2000-04)

At Headquarters, she has been Under Secretary looking after Nepal (1982-85), Director, Economic Co-Ordination Unit (1992-95), attended the National Defence College at New Delhi (1995) and Joint Secretary at the Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi (1996-97). Her most recent assignment was as Additional Secretary responsible for West Europe and the EU in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi.

Mrs. Singh completed her B.A. Honours in Economics in 1973 from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi. She did her M.A. in Economics in 1975 from the Delhi School of Economics.

Mrs. Singh is married to a fellow diplomat, Mr. Sanjay Singh, presently at Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. They have two daughters, aged 26 yrs. and 21 yrs.

High Commission of India
Canberra

October 2007