Former Indian ambassador to Nepal Jayant Prasad is new DG of Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

 Former Indian ambassador to Nepal Jayant Prasad was on twenty nine Sep 2015 appointed as the Director General of Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), the prestigious New Delhi-based think tank on strategic affairs.

The post of Director General of IDSA had

been vacant since August 2014. Prasad takes charge at IDSA at a special moment as 2015 marks the fiftieth year of existence of the think tank.

He began his career by specialising on the South Asian neighbourhood; he most prominently served in Afghanistan as the Indian Ambassador during 2008-2010 and as Ambassador to Nepal during 2011-2013.

Prasad has additionally served as India’s permanent representative to the Conference on disarmament in Geneva, Ambassador to Algeria, and additionally as a counsellor for trade access and development cooperation at the Indian Mission to the European Union in Bruxelles.