Asia Hands Society welcomes Randhir Jaiswal, Consul General of India in New York, who will address the direction of India-U.S. relations emerging after the Biden election. Initial high level calls have placed importance on such issues as COVID-19, climate change, the global economy, terrorism and the promotion of a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Members and friends of Asia Hands may contact us for a registration link. Meeting to be hosted on Zoom.

5:00 p.m. EST / 2:00 p.m. PST

Hong Kong/Singapore: 6:00 a.m. on April 23, 2021

Tokyo: 7:00 a.m. on April 23, 2021

Randhir Jaiswal, Consul General of India in New York

Randhir Jaiswal is a career diplomat. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1998. In his over two decades of diplomatic career so far, he has served in Portugal, Cuba, South Africa and at the Permanent Mission of India in New York.

In between his overseas assignments, he served in New Delhi at the Ministry of External Affairs, first as Deputy Secretary looking after India’s relations with the United States of America, and then as Joint Secretary managing India’s relations with West European countries. In the middle of 2017, he was deputed to serve the President of India as Joint Secretary managing his international relations portfolio. He serves as Consul General of India in New York from 19 July 2020.

Randhir Jaiswal is passionate about sports, environment, culture, monuments, old cities and cuisines. He is deeply interested in strategic, sustainable development and public policy issues. He has been part of India’s delegation at various Climate Change Conferences and was the lead negotiator for the G-77 countries at the RIO+20 Conference held in Brazil in 2012.

He holds a Masters degree in History from Delhi University, India.

He speaks Hindi, English, Portuguese and Spanish and is conversant with several dialects of Bihar, India.