Chitra Narayanan

Chitra Narayanan is a diplomat from India. She served as an Indian Foreign Service officer and as an ambassador of India to six countries.

Career Chitra started her career as a journalist at the Press Institute of India. She was the founder-editor and co-publisher of The Book Review, the first English speaking journal in India dedicated to books. She is an associate fellow at the Geneva Center of Security Policy and Course Director of the executive course on Creative Diplomacy which teaches creative leadership and decision making skills relevant to the challenges of today.

Personal life Chitra is the daughter of the former President of India, K. R. Narayanan and Usha Narayanan. Due to the nature of the job of her father as an Indian Foreign Service officer, she got to do her schooling in different parts of the world, including in London, Australia, at a boarding school in the Himalayas and in New Delhi. She was homeschooled for one and a half years in Hanoi. She then completed her undergraduate studies in political science and postgraduate studies in international relations specializing in Chinese politics at Delhi University. She has a daughter, Chandrika, who is a writer and arts manager living in Dublin. She has a sister Amrita who lives in Bonn.