Salman Haidar
Ambassador Haider is lighting the lamp
20th Indian Foreign Secretary
In office
1 March 1995  30 June 1997
Preceded byKrishnan Srinivasan
Succeeded byK. Raghunath
Personal details
Born1937
Madras, India
SpouseKusum
RelationsSheikh Abdullah (grandfather)
Ismat Chughtai (aunt)
Rashid Jahan (aunt)
Begum Khurshid Mirza (aunt)
Zohra Sehgal (aunt)
Uzra Butt (aunt)
Kiran Segal (cousin)
Khawar Mumtaz (grand-aunt)
Samiya Mumtaz (grand-cousin)
Ayesha Raza Mishra (cousin)
ChildrenNadeem Haidar and Navina Najat Haidar
OccupationDiplomat and Scholar

Salman Haidar is a former Indian diplomat who served as the Foreign Secretary of India.[1] His tenure was from 1 March 1995 to 30 June 1997. He also served as high commissioner of India to the United Kingdom from January to July, 1998.

Personal life

Haidar graduated from Sherwood College, Nainital, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and Cambridge University. He has a son, Nadeem Haidar (SOAS alumnus) and a daughter, Navina Najat Haidar, author and art curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[2][3]

References

  1. "salman-haider".
  2. Sethi, Sunil. "Lunch with BS: Navina Najat Haidar, Museum curator".
  3. "Navina Najat Haidar – TEDxMet Icons, 2015 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art".


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