1977, with the Indian Foreign Service including: 1979-81, Third and Second Secretary, Political, Embassy of India, Moscow; 1981-85, Undersecretary, Americas, and Policy Planning, Ministry of External Affairs; 1985-88, First Secretary, handling Political Affairs, Indian Embassy, Washington DC; 1988-90, First Secretary and Political Adviser to the Indian Peace Keeping Force, Sri Lanka; 1990-93, Counsellor, Commercial, Budapest; Director, East Europe; 1994-95, Press Secretary to the President of India. Since 2009, Ambassador of India to China.