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Vijay Nambiar

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on 1 January 2007 the appointment of Vijay Nambiar of India as his Chief of Staff. Mr. Nambiar had been serving as Special Adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the rank of Under-Secretary-General.

Mr. Nambiar previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor to the Government of India and Head of the National Security Council Secretariat. Prior to that he served as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York (May 2002-June 2004). Earlier as Ambassador of India, he served successively in Pakistan (2000-2001), China (1996-2000), Malaysia (1993-1996), and Afghanistan (1990-1992). Before that he had also served as India's Ambassador to Algeria (1985-1988).

During the course of his professional career in the Indian Foreign Service, he had served in numerous bilateral and multilateral appointments in Beijing, Belgrade and New York during the 1970s and 1980s. He was Joint Secretary (Director General) handling East Asia in 1988 during the period of the historic visit of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to China. He also dealt with multilateral affairs at headquarters in New Delhi during the early 1980s. Since 1979, he has been involved, at the delegation level, in numerous UN and non-aligned summit and ministerial conferences.

Mr. Nambiar joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1967 and spent his early years in the diplomatic service specializing in Chinese as well as serving in Hong Kong and Beijing. During the mid-1970s he also served in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Mr. Nambiar was born in Poona, India, in August 1943. He holds a post-graduate degree in Political Science from Bombay University and was awarded the University's Chancellor’s Gold Medal in 1965.

He is married and has two daughters.

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