T. S. Tirumurti
T. S. Tirumurti | |
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Tirumurti in 2018 | |
| Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations | |
| In office 19 May 2020 – 30 June 2022 | |
| President | Ram Nath Kovind |
| Preceded by | Syed Akbaruddin |
| Succeeded by | Ruchira Kamboj |
| Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs | |
| In office 5 February 2018 – 30 April 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Vijay Keshav Gokhale |
| Succeeded by | Rahul Chhabra |
| High Commissioner of India to Malaysia | |
| In office 20 December 2013 – 4 February 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Vijay Keshav Gokhale |
| Succeeded by | Mridul Kumar |
| 1st Representative of India to the State of Palestine | |
| In office 1 January 1996 – 1 January 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | P. Harish |
| President of the United Nations Security Council | |
| In office August 2021 — September 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 March 1962 Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Spouse | Gowri Tirumurti |
| Relatives | Ramanathan Krishnan (Father in-law) |
| Alma mater | (BCom) Vivekananda College University of Madras (LLB) Faculty of Law, University of Delhi |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Profession | Civil Servant |
T. S. Tirumurti (born 7 March 1962) is a retired Indian diplomat from the 1985 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. He served as the Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of External Affairs of India and later as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York. It was then India became a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 8th time. He was also the President of the UN Security Council for August 2021.
After his retirement from the Indian Foreign Service, Tirumurti has been appointed as Distinguished Professor in Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar.