Dr. Shashi Tharoor, a Member of Parliament
since 2009, has won the Lok Sabha Elections
four times from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. A
member of the Indian National Congress,
Tharoor is a former diplomat and was formerly an
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Tharoor graduated from St. Stephen's College,
Delhi, in 1975 and was conferred a doctorate in
international relations and affairs from the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University a few years later in 1978. At the age
of 22, he was the youngest person at the time to
receive such an honour from the Fletcher School.
During the Manmohan Singh Government,
Dr. Shashi Tharoor served as the Minister of
State for External Affairs. An erudite scholar
and intellectual, an acclaimed public speaker,
Dr Tharoor is a Sahitya Akademi Award
winner, who has authored many works of fiction
and non-fiction since 1981. He is presently the
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing
Committee on External Affairs.
