Satish Chandra

Satish Chandra joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1965 and was posted in various capacities in
Indian missions in Vienna, Karachi, Washington D.C., Algiers, and Dhaka as well as at headquarters till 1989.
Subsequently, he served as India’s ambassador to the Philippines, its permanent representative to the UN Offices in Geneva and its high commissioner to Pakistan.
In 1999, he set up the National Security Council Secretariat and headed it as secretary till his
retirement in February 2005. Simultaneously, he was chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and, from February 2002, was concurrently deputy national security advisor.