Syed Akbaruddin served as India’s Permanent Representative to the UN from 2016 till his retirement from the Indian Foreign Service in 2020. In a diplomatic career spanning thirty-five years, he spent more than a decade engaged in multilateral diplomacy—both as an Indian diplomat and an international civil servant. Currently he is Dean, Kautilya School of Public Policy, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Hyderabad.