Kamalesh Sharma

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Kamalesh Sharma is the High Commissioner of India in London, and has been elected to the office of Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008.

Kamalesh Sharma in an alumnus of the St. Stephen's College in Delhi and the King's College, Cambridge. 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.


Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

Sharma was elected as the secretary-general during the biennial Commonwealth summit in Kampala, Uganda held from November 22 to November 24. He will take over the post on April 1, 2008 from the current secretary-general Don McKinnon on New Zealand. Michael Frendo, foreign minister of Malta, was also a strong contender for the post.

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