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'''Meera Shankar''' ( | '''Meera Shankar''' (''[[née]]'' '''Yadav''') served as India's Ambassador to the [[United States of America]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Meera shankar |url=https://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Meera+shankar&rlz=1R2GPEA_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=01ZeSvGKMoamNpvEvK4C&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct=title&resnum=10 |title=Meera shankar |date= |accessdate=2012-10-14}}</ref> from 26 April 2009<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.indianembassy.org/speeches_statements.php |publisher=Indian Embassy, Washington |date= |accessdate=2015-04-14 |title=Archived copy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415113601/https://www.indianembassy.org/speeches_statements.php |archive-date=15 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> to 2011. She was India's second female ambassador to the United States of America, [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit|Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit]] being the first. She was succeeded by [[Nirupama Rao]] on August 1, 2011. | ||
Shankar, an | Shankar, an officer of the 1973 batch, was posted in [[Washington DC]] from 1991 to 1995. She succeeded Ambassador [[Ronen Sen]]. | ||
==Early life and career== | ==Early life and career== | ||
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[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Germany]] | [[Category:Ambassadors of India to Germany]] | ||
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