Dr. V.S. Seshadri, I.F.S (Retd.)
Senior Fellow for International Trade
Dr. Seshadri joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1978 and served in several diplomatic posts during his career that included Nairobi, Brussels, Bangkok, Tehran and Washington DC. He was also on deputation to the Ministry of Commerce from 1999 to 2003 when he was the Joint Secretary responsible for WTO matters. Dr.Seshadri was the first resident Ambassador of India to Slovenia, Ljubljana from 2007 to 2010. He then went on to serve as India’s Ambassador to Myanmar, in Yangon from 2010 till 2013. On return to India he held the position of Vice-Chairman of the think tank Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi from 2014 upto 2017. Thereafter he was also associated with CII in connection with a study project relating to RCEP. Dr. Seshadri had his college education in Bangalore and Hyderabad and secured his PhD. in Applied Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1978. Dr Seshadri has contributed a number of research articles and discussion papers on trade and other international economic issues.
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East Asia Explorer
Date: March 04, 2023Reset in Australia-China Relations by Pradeep Taneja When Anthony Albanese met Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the …
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Economic Security and Resilience Review
Date: March 04, 2023Introduction This second issue of the Review will focus on two important developments that can shape the contours of …
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Economic Security and Resilience Review
Date: February 01, 2023Introduction Security of a nation is a composite concept, and it is difficult to break it down into political, …
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Preparing for a Review of the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA)
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India-Australia FTA Talks: A Quick Harvest Should Not Become the Sole Harvest
Date: September 04, 2021Read more -
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Review of India’s exports to the US in 2020: Need for a Vanijya Bharat
Date: July 27, 2021Introduction India’s exports to the United States declined by 2.78% during the COVID-19 battered year 2020-21, just as …
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US trade deals under President Trump: What they mean for India and world trade
Date: May 08, 2020SECTION 1: Introduction Pursuit of an aggressive trade policy has been among the major highlights of the Trump Presidency in the …
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India-US Trade: Prospects for an elusive limited trade deal and a looming big deal
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Optimising FTA Utilisation
Date: January 11, 2020DPG Policy Brief, Vol. V, Issue 2: Optimising FTA Utilisation%u200B by Dr. V.S. Seshadri
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