Ambassador Ashok Kumar Attri will be a keynote speaker at the ILS 2009.
Ambassador Attri came to Chicago as the Consul General of India in June 2007. Earlier he was the Ambassador of India to the Sultanate of Oman from 2004 to 2007. He was also the High Commissioner (Ambassador) of India to the Republic of Zambia from 1998 to 2002.
Since joining the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in July 1975, Mr. Attri has also held diplomatic assignments in Indian Embassies or High Commissions in Kenya, Zambia, Canada, Vietnam and Switzerland. He also served at the multilateral Secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), based in Kathmandu from 1994 to 1998.
In between, Ambassador Attri has served in the Ministry of External Affairs of India as the Deputy Head of the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) Division and as the Head of the Coordination Division.
