65Abida Islam
Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh, Kolkata
Diplomacy • scholarship • public life
Important visitors at JAIR
A historical register of distinguished guests welcomed through JAIR’s lectures, conferences, dialogues and institutional programmes.
65documented visitors
65 visitors in the historical register
Titles and affiliations are reproduced as recorded in JAIR’s archived documents and may have changed since the visit.Ambassadors, high commissioners, consuls and senior foreign-service officials
Diplomats & foreign-affairs leaders
27 visitorsSource ↗
Amit Dasgupta
Former Joint Secretary, Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs
Chandra Kumar Ghimire
Consul General of Nepal
Clinton S. “Tad” Brown
Acting Consul General, United States Consulate General, Kolkata
Dasho Tsering Wangda
Consul General, Royal Bhutanese Consulate
Daw Yin Yin Myint
Director General, Training, Research and Foreign Language, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Myanmar
H. S. S. Viswanathan
Former Ambassador, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
J. S. Mukul
Joint Secretary, TC & ER, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Krishnan Srinivasan
Former Ambassador, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Krit Kraichitti
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Thailand to India
Kyaw Swe Tint
Consul General of Myanmar
Mahbub Hassan Saleh
Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh
Mohammed Mijarul Quayes
Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh
Muchkund Dubey
Former Foreign Secretary of India
Visited for a discussion on India’s Foreign Policy: Coping with the Changing WorldMitsuo Kawaguchi
Consul General of Japan, Kolkata
Navdeep S. Suri
Former Joint Secretary, Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs
Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty
Special Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Pyi Soe
Counsellor and Head of Mission, Myanmar
Rajendra Madhukar Abhankar
Former Ambassador, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Rajiv Sikri
Former Ambassador, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Ranjan Mathai
Foreign Secretary, Government of India
Delivered the keynote address at JAIR’s 2012 Manipur conferenceRonen Sen
Former Ambassador, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
T. S. Tirumurti
Joint Secretary, BSM, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Tariq Ahmad Karim
Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh
V. S. Seshadri
Former Ambassador of India to Myanmar
Delivered a special lecture at the Guwahati conferenceVeena Sikri
Former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh
Vinod Kumar
Joint Secretary, Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs
Visitors holding constitutional, ministerial and senior administrative office
Governors, ministers & public officials
8 visitorsM. K. Narayanan
Governor of West Bengal
Ranjit S. Mooshahary
Governor of Meghalaya
Konthoujam Govindas
Minister of Industries, Government of Manipur
Moirangthem Okendra
Minister of Education, Government of Manipur
Esther Lalruatkimi
Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Mizoram
Prasad Ranjan Roy
Former Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal
R. G. Lyngdoh
Former Home Minister of Meghalaya
Shashi Tharoor
Former Minister of State, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Inaugurated the JAIR-associated BIMSTEC seminar at NEHUVice-chancellors, scholars, institutional directors and academic leaders
University, research & cultural leaders
13 visitorsAbhijit Chakraborty
Vice-Chancellor, Jadavpur University
Anne Cheng
Professor, Collège de France
Delivered a JAIR lecture organised with ICSSR and the Institute of Chinese StudiesC. J. Thomas
Director, ICSSR North Eastern Regional Centre
H. Nandakumar Sarma
Vice-Chancellor, Manipur University
Imtiaz Ahmed
Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka
P. N. Ghosh
Vice-Chancellor, Jadavpur University
Pradip Kumar Ghosh
Registrar, Jadavpur University
Pramod Tandon
Vice-Chancellor, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
Reba Som
Director, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata
Soumendranath Bandyopadhyay
Former Professor, Visva-Bharati University and Tagore scholar
Surajit C. Mukhopadhyay
Registrar, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
Sushanta Dattagupta
Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati University
Uma Dasgupta
Tagore scholar and UNESCO scholar on Rabindranath Tagore
Editors, broadcasters, business leaders and public intellectuals
Media, industry & civic voices
6 visitorsAbdul Matlub Ahmed
President, India–Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Bhabesh Das
News Editor, Prasar Bharati / Akashvani
Dipankar Chatterjee
Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry, North East India Chapter
Patricia Mukhim
Editor, The Shillong Times
Pradip Gooptu
Resident Editor, Business Standard
Subir Bhowmick
Former Bureau Chief for East and Northeast India, BBC
Members of the cross-party delegation welcomed by JAIR
South African parliamentary delegation
11 visitorsMewa Ramgobin
African National Congress MP and head of the visiting delegation
Alex Chekkat Jacob
African National Congress MP
Farida Mahommed
African National Congress MP
Ismail Mahommed Cachalia
African National Congress MP
Kay Moonsamy
African National Congress MP
Salamuddi Abram
African National Congress MP
Zoniad Kotwal
African National Congress MP
Mahommed Sayedali Shah
Democratic Alliance MP, South Africa
Santosh Vinita Kalyan
Democratic Alliance MP, South Africa
Narend Singh
Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa
Royith Bhoola
Minority Front, South Africa