Ambassador Venu Rajamony

Venu Rajamony was Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 2017-2020. He was also the Permanent Representative of India to the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and responsible for India’s relations with the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration and other legal institutions in The Hague. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986 and had served in Indian missions in Hong Kong, Beijing, Geneva and Washington D.C, and was the Consul General of India in Dubai, UAE. He had served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, and the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and also as the Press Secretary to the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. He was the Asia Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. Ambassador Rajamony has authored two acclaimed books – India and the Netherlands – Past, Present and Future (September 2019), What We Can Learn From The Dutch – Rebuilding Kerala post 2018 Floods (January 2019); a monograph – India-China-US Triangle: A Soft Balance of Power in the Making; a coffee table book – India and the UAE: In Celebration of a Legendary Friendship, and other publications. Venu Rajamony holds an LLB (Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala), Masters in International Studies (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) and a Certificate in Chinese Language (University of Hong Kong).