Shyam Saran is the President of the India International Centre (IIC) and a former Foreign Secretary of India. He also served as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010, he headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a prestigious think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017) and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, National Security Council (2013-2015). He is the author of How India Sees the World (2017) and How China Sees India and the World (2022). In 2011, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India for his contribution to Civil Service and in 2019, the Emperor of Japan decorated him with the Spring Order, Gold and Silver Star for his services to promoting India-Japan Relations.

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