Anshuman Gaur


Anshuman Gaur is an Indian Foreign Service Officer of 2001 batch. On 25 February, 2019, he was appointed as The Deputy Chief of Mission of India, in the Indian High Commission in Ottawa, Canada. After his stint as Director, he was appointed as the Private Secretary to Information Technology, Law & Justice, Communications & Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, in December 2017. He was serving as Director in the Ministry of External Affairs. Earlier, he served as the Officer on Special Duty to the Vice President of India from June 2017 to August 2017. He also writes poetry in English. He was .

Early life and education

Gaur was born in Patna, Bihar. His mother was a University Professor and father was a civil servant. He studied in St Michael's High School Patna and Graduated from Patna Science College in 1995.

Career

After initial training at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Gaur Went to the Foreign Service Institute New Delhi. After the course he was posted to Paris, France for language Training. He served as Second Secretary at Permanent Mission of India to UNESCO, Paris. He returned to India and served in the Ministry of External Affairs as Under Secretary and as OSD in XP Division, where he was tasked with the handling of the foreign media in India. In 2009 he was posted as First Secretary to Embassy of India in Kathmandu, Nepal. In Nepal he initiated several new bilateral cooperation programmes including training of Nepalese diplomats in India. In 2012, he was posted to Indian Embassy in Paris France as Counsellor. He worked to expand India-France trade and investment. He met French business persons and gave talks all over France. He was the keynote speaker at 5 plus City Forum seminar on Smart Cities held in Paris,France. He was also the keynote speaker at Seminar on Clean India- Challenges & Opportunities, organized by IFFCI in Mumbai on 8 April 2015.

Personal life

He is married to Apoorva Srivastava, who is also an Indian Foreign Service officer. They have two daughters, Ananya Gaur, age 14, and Ayana Gaur, age 10.

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