S. Jaishankar

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is India's Minister of External Affairs, a position he has held since May 2019. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rajya Sabha representing Gujarat, he previously served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2015 to 2018 and as ambassador to the United States, China, Singapore, and the Czech Republic during a diplomatic career spanning nearly four decades. He is known for executing a more assertive Indian foreign policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and for authoring the books The India Way and Why Bharat Matters.