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Ambassador Gautam Bambawale

  • Former Ambassador, India to China, Pakistan, and Bhutan
  • Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune

Ambassador (Retd) Gautam Bambawale was a member of the Indian Foreign Service from 1984 to 2018. He was India’s Ambassador to Bhutan, Pakistan and China.

Bambawale was stationed in Washington DC in 2004-07 during the Indo-US nuclear deal which transformed ties between the two countries. He has been India’s first Consul General in Guangzhou (China) 2007-09. He was Director of the Indian Cultural Centre, Berlin 1994-98.

Ambassador Bambawale worked in the Prime Minister’s Office 2002-04. At the Ministry of External Affairs he was Joint Secretary for East Asia from 2009-2014. Bambawale has dealt with China for 15 years of his 34 year diplomatic career.

Ambassador Bambawale is currently Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune and teaches a course on Diplomacy and International Governance at the Symbiosis School of International Studies.

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Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) 4.1

Capsule One: Strategic Patience and Flexible Policies: How India Can Rise To the China Challenge

6:00pm-7:30pm (IST)

Event Conference | Apr 22, 2021

A new age virtual conference series in 2021 that aims to bring together legal, economic, and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.