[Notice] Speech From Mr. Pradeep Kumar Rawat, Director General of India-Taipei Association

2012-02-29

Introduction
2011 was an eventful year for India-Taiwan relations. The year began with the successful visit of a large business delegation from India in January. It was immediately followed up by the historic visit of Chairperson Dr. Christina Liu, who led the largest – ever Taiwanese business delegation to visit India in February. The momentum that these exchanges imparted helped in further enlarging the matrix of bilateral interactions, particularly in the field of education and cultural relations.

Information
Speaker：Mr. Pradeep Kumar Rawat
Director General of India-Taipei Association
Topic：Taiwan’s India Challenge: Potential of a Win:Win Partnership (in English)
Date：2012.March.9 (Friday)
Time：16:00-17:00
Site: Distance Learning Classroom in NTHU (upstairs of ZyXEL Auditorium)
Moderator：Da-Hsuan Feng,
Senior Vice President of Global Strategy, Development, and
Evaluation

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Additional information about Mr. Pradeep Kumar Rawat：
Prior to appointment as the Director General of India-Taipei Association in October 2009, Pradeep Kumar Rawat was Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. His previous assignments in India include the Officer on Special Duty in the Project Office of the South Asian University (September 2008 – August 2009). He had earlier held the posts of Director (July 2007 – September 2008) and Under Secretary/Deputy Secretary (September 1997 – February 2001) in East Asia Division, Ministry of External Affairs which looks after India's relations with People's Republic of China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan. He has served in the Embassy of India in Beijing from November 2003 to June 2007 first as Counsellor and then as the Deputy Chief of Mission and from June 1994 to August 1997 as Second/First Secretary. His other overseas appointments were Third/Second Secretary in Hong Kong (January 1992- May 1994) where he also attended a Chinese language course at the Yale-in-Asia Language Centre of the Chinese University and as First Secretary in the High Commission of India in Port Louis (March 2001 – November 2003).
Pradeep Kumar Rawat studied Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra and has a M. Tech. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1990.