About Ravi Neelakantan
Ravi Neelakantan was an Indian diplomat, indian Foreign Service, minister of Finance (India), ministry of Commerce and Industry (India) and ministry of External Affairs (India).
Neelakantan Ravi (also known as N. Ravi) is an Indian diplomat. He was an officer of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) from 1971 to 2009, and has served in various diplomatic and administrative positions in the Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Finance under the Government of India. In 2009, he was appointed as an ambassador of Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
After retirement, he took up an academic position as the senior fellow in the Centre for Public Policy at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
Recognition Ravi was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus award by IIM Bangalore in October 2009.
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Who was Ravi Neelakantan?
Indian civil servant
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Ravi Neelakantan was a diplomat, indian Foreign Service, minister of Finance (India), ministry of Commerce and Industry (India) and ministry of External Affairs (India).
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