Kamalesh Sharma

Kamalesh Sharma

Kamalesh Sharma (born 30 September 1941) [cite news |first= |last= |title=New Permanent Representative of India Presents Credentials |url=http://www.un.org/news/Press/docs/1997/19970804.BIO3087.html |publisher=United Nations |date=4 August 1997 |accessdate=2008-04-06 ] is the current Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008, having previously served as the High Commissioner of India in London. cite web
publisher = Commonwealth Secretariat
title = Kamalesh Sharma is new Commonwealth Secretary-General
url=http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/172993/241107newsg.htm
accessdate=2007-11-24
]

Kamalesh Sharma in an alumnus of St. Stephen's College in Delhi and King's College, Cambridge. [ cite web
publisher = Judge Business School, Cambridge
title = Kamalesh Sharma, Indian High Commissioner
url=http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/mba/networks/seminar_popups/sharma.html
accessdate=2007-11-24
] Sharma was an officer in the Indian Foreign Service from 1965 to 2001. He served as India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations before his retirement from IFS. From 2002 to 2004, he served as U.N. Secretary General's special representative to East Timor. He was appointed as the High Commissioner of India to Britain in 2004. [cite news
url = http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/07/stories/2007060706971200.htm
title = India to field Kamalesh Sharma for C'wealth job
publisher = The Hindu
date = 2007-06-07
accessdate = 2007-11-24
]

ecretary-General of the Commonwealth

Sharma was elected to the position of secretary-general over Michael Frendo, foreign minister of Malta, during the biennial Commonwealth summit in Kampala, Uganda held from 22 November to 24 November, 2007. [cite news
url = http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=4488
title = Kamlesh Sharma for C'wealth top job
publisher = Times Now
date = 2007-11-24
accessdate = 2007-11-24
] He took over from Don McKinnon of New Zealand on 1 April 2008. [cite news
url = http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnB614830.html
title = Indian diplomat to be new head of Commonwealth
publisher = Reuters, Africa
date = 2007-11-24
accessdate = 2007-11-24
]

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