Navdeep Suri is Visiting Fellow.
He has had a 36-year long career in the Indian Foreign Service. He served in India’s diplomatic missions in Cairo, Damascus, Washington, Dar es Salaam and London. He was India’s Consul General in Johannesburg, High Commissioner to Australia and Ambassador to Egypt and the UAE. He also headed West Africa and Public Diplomacy departments in India’s Ministry of External Affairs.
Navdeep has a master’s degree in economics. He has written on India’s public diplomacy and soft power, India’s Africa policy and the Indian IT outsourcing industry. He has also translated three classic Punjabi works into English — The Watchmaker (Penguin), A Life Incomplete (Harper Collins), and Khooni Vaisakhi (Harper Collins).
Navdeep’s initiative to introduce social media in the Ministry of External Affairs and its diplomatic missions in 2010 was commended. His contribution to building stronger ties between India and UAE was recognised by the President of UAE when he conferred on Navdeep the country’s second highest civilian award — the Order of Zayed II.
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Commentaries
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Apr 16, 2024Shadow-boxing in West Asia
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Feb 14, 2024Old-fashioned trust and credibility bind India-UAE ties
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Dec 01, 2023From India’s G20 to UAE’s COP28 – A new pathway for climate action
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Oct 14, 2023The rollercoaster saga of Israel-Hamas relations
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Oct 06, 2023Canada’s blinkers on Khalistan hurt bilateral ties and the Sikh community
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Oct 06, 2023Canada’s blinkers on Khalistan hurt bilateral ties and the Sikh community
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Jun 27, 2023Modi’s visit could bring fresh energy to India-Egypt ties
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Jun 07, 2023Erdogan's comeback: Prospects of closer India-Türkiye ties
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May 27, 2023Inconvenient truths: those opposing Cop28 leadership should face own reality
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May 13, 2023Shift towards geoeconomics: Connecting India with West Asia
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Apr 26, 2023Saudi moves impacting West Asian geopolitics
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Jan 16, 2023UAE Might Just Give COP28 the Breakthrough It Needs
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Oct 31, 2022Why Israel-Lebanon maritime agreement is a breakthrough deal
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Jul 16, 2022I2U2 brings hi-tech food, clean energy projects
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Jun 19, 2022Sowing the wind, reaping the whirlwind
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Mar 05, 2021US walks a tightrope on Khashoggi report
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Jan 08, 2021Qatar thaw a sign of shifting sands in Gulf
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Dec 05, 2020China’s soft power is failing in Australia, despite opening Confucius institutes all over
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Aug 17, 2020Window of opportunity for India
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Jul 31, 2020Between two IPLs, a relationship blossomed