Dr Kishore Mandhyan was the Political Director and Deputy Director for Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Human Rights Affairs in the Cabinet of the United Nations’ Secretary General (SG) between
2007 and 2012. He also was Political Advisor to the SG on peace and security matters related to the International Parliamentary Union, the Alliance of Civilizations, Peace building, Human Security, and Protection
of Civilians.
Earlier for fifteen years (1993-2007) he served in political leadership roles of UN peacekeeping in trouble spots worldwide.
Before the UN (mid-eighties to early nineties), he taught international relations and comparative politics at Boston College, Tufts and Harvard universities. At Harvard he was awarded the prize for excellence
in teaching. He has lectured/ facilitated panels at several academic, public, policy and diplomatic forums.
He was trained in the Foundation Program in Public Administration at the National Academy of Administration/ Mussorie; Program on Negotiation at Harvard; and the Sloan Foundation Workshop on the Control of Nuclear
Weapons at MIT/ Cambridge.
His most recent publication is on Transitions and Turning Points in Indian Foreign Policy.
He joined the professional civil service of the Government of India as an IAS and served in the Ministry of Communications. His education is in the physical sciences and law from Bombay University; and in the
social sciences and humanities at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy/ USA. Mr. Mandhyan has been recognized for life time achievement by Jai hind College, the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership,
and as an international thought leader by the World Vision Institute.
