Jawed Ashraf, Indian Ambassador to France and President of the Foundation
Jawed Ashraf undertook the role of Indian Ambassador to France and the Principality of Monaco on the 13th of July 2020. A career Diplomat, Jawed Ashraf joined the Indian diplomatic service in 1991. He worked in Frankfurt and in Berlin from 1993 until 1999, in the Americas division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi from 1999 until 2004, as Councillor to the Indian Ambassador to Kathmandu in 2007, Councillor and Minister of Political Affairs to the Indian Ambassador to Washington DC from 2007 until 2010. He was then the Head of the Americas division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi from 2010 until 2012. Assistant Secretary to the Prime Minister’s office, he was named as the High Commissioner of India in Singapore from 2016 until 2020. Jawed Ashraf studied economics at St. Stephone’s College of New Delhi and management at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.
The founders of the Cité have shown extraordinary vision in a world where boundaries are increasing, creating a place that serves its lofty ideals and its intellectual purpose based on scholarship and innovation. It is my belief that there is no similar institution in the world.
