Mohammad Hamid Ansari is an Indian politician and retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who was the 12th vice president of India from 2007 to 2017.
Ansari in 2016
The Vice President, M. Hamid Ansari calling on the President of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari, in New Delhi, 18 April 2017.
Vice President, Shri Mohammad Hamid Ansari with the former Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar Nepal
Vice President Ansari with then CM of Gujarat, the Governor of Gujarat and some Supreme court judges at the Gujarat National Law University
The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It is the diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vinay Mohan Kwatra is the 34th and the current Foreign Secretary.
Indian Foreign Service
South Block The HQ of Ministry of External Affairs, Prime Minister's Office and Defence Ministry in New Delhi
The U.S. President Barack Obama and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with their diplomats in an expanded bilateral meeting at Hyderabad House, New Delhi, 2015.
Nirupama Rao, the then Indian Ambassador to the U.S., in a meeting with Hillary Clinton, the then U.S. Secretary of State, in Washington, D.C., 2012
