Hardeep Singh Puri

Hardeep Singh Puri
IFS (Retd.)
Hardeep Singh Puri IFS (Retd.)
	Official portrait, 2021
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 July 2021
President	Ramnath Kovind; Droupadi Murmu
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Dharmendra Pradhan
Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
	In office; 3 September 2017 – 9 June 2024
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Narendra Singh Tomar
Succeeded by	Manohar Lal Khattar
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation (Independent Charge) and Commerce & Industry
	In office; 30 May 2019 – 7 July 2021
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Suresh Prabhu
Succeeded by	Jyotiraditya Scindia
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 January 2018
Preceded by	Manohar Parrikar
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
	In office; 4 May 2009 – 27 February 2013
President	Pratibha Patil; Pranab Mukherjee;
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Nirupam Sen
Succeeded by	Asoke Kumar Mukerji
President of the United Nations Security Council
	In office; August 2011 — September 2012 ; November 2012 — December 2012
Personal details
Born	15 February 1952; Delhi, India
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri (m. 1975)
Children	2
Alma mater	Delhi University (BA, MA)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Civil servant
Website	hardeepsinghpuri.com

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Hardeep Singh Puri (born 15 February 1952) is an Indian politician and retired diplomat of Indian Foreign Service who is serving as the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas since 2021.

He is a 1974 batch Indian Foreign Service officer who served as the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013. Puri served as the chairman of the United Nations Security Council's Counter Terrorism Committee from January 2011 to February 2013; and joined International Peace Institute as a senior advisor in June 2013.

Puri joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2014, and became a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh in November 2020. Earlier in May 2019, he had taken charge as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs and Civil Aviation and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.