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'''Krishnan Srinivasan''' (born 15 February 1937) is a retired Indian diplomat, Historian, author, former Indian [[Foreign Secretary (India)|Foreign Secretary]], and Deputy Secretary-General of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] .<ref>[http://us.macmillan.com/author/krishnansrinivasan Krishnan Srinivasan: Macmillan author page]</ref>

He was born in [[Madras, India]] and educated at [[Bedford School]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. He joined the [[Indian Foreign Service]] in May 1959. His early postings included Oslo, Beirut, and Tripoli. He was India's [[Ambassador]]/[[High Commissioner]] to [[Zambia]] and [[Botswana]], [[Nigeria]], [[Benin]] and Cameroon, the [[Netherlands]] and [[Bangladesh]]. He was appointed Secretary and finally Foreign Secretary and retired in 1995. In 1995, he was appointed [[Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General#Political Affairs|Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs]] in London where he served until 2002.

He was a Member of [[Christ Church, Oxford]]’s Senior Common Room and High Table from 1998 to 2016, Fellow of [[Wolfson College Cambridge]] (2002–05), Fellow of the Centre for International Studies Cambridge (2002–05), Fellow of the [[Institute of Commonwealth Studies]] London (2002–08), Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (2003–04), Fellow of the [[Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata]] from 2006 to 2015, and Fellow of the [[Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study]] at [[Uppsala]] in (2008 and 2012–13). He was elected Honorary Professor at ASCI Hyderabad in 2005. He was awarded a [[Hind Ratna]] (India) in 2002, and was made a [[Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Valeur]] (Cameroon) in 2007.

He is a regular columnist and book reviewer on international affairs for several Indian newspapers.