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Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri gets one-year extension

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension for a period of one year, up to July 14, 2027.

Updated on: Jul 1, 2026, 20:33:08 IST
By Shishir Gupta
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Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri was given a one-year extension on Wednesday, till July 14 next year on Wednesday, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet said in a statement.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri was granted one-year extension on Wednesday. (@MEAIndia)
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri was granted one-year extension on Wednesday. (@MEAIndia)

“The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension in service of Shri Vikram Misri, IFS (1989), Foreign Secretary, for a period of one year beyond 14.07.2026, i.e., up to 14.07.2027, or until further orders, whichever is earlier, in terms of the provisions of F.R. 56(d),” the government statement said.

The extension was granted till July 14, 2027, under the provisions of Fundamental Rule 56(d). The foreign secretary is widely regarded as an expert on China and was appointed to the post in June 2024.

A copy of the order has been marked to the Cabinet Secretary, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, the Secretaries to the President and Vice President of India, the Secretaries General of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, the Home Minister's Office, among other senior government officials.

Misri is a 1989-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who was serving as the Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) before taking over as Foreign Secretary.

He is among the few diplomats to have served as private secretary to three prime ministers - Inder Kumar Gujral, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi.

Before his stint as Deputy NSA, Misri served as India's ambassador to China from 2019 to 2021, a period marked by heightened tensions following the Galwan Valley clashes in June 2020.

He is believed to have played a key role in diplomatic engagements between New Delhi and Beijing during the military standoff along the Line of Actual Control.

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Misri has also served as India's ambassador to Spain (2014-2016) and Myanmar (2016-2018).

During his diplomatic career, he has held postings in several Indian missions abroad, including Pakistan, the United States, Germany, Belgium and Sri Lanka.

During his diplomatic career, Misri has been posted in Brussels, Tunis, Islamabad and Washington, DC. He has also served as Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Consul General in Munich.

 
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Shishir Gupta

Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.

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