Chandrashekhar Dasgupta

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta (born 2 May 1940) is an Indian civil servant, diplomat, writer and a former Indian ambassador to the European Union, Belgium, Luxemburg and China. Born on 2 May 1940, he entered Indian Foreign Service in 1962 and worked as a diplomat till his superannuation in 2000. During this period, he served as the Indian ambassador to China (1993–1996) and Belgium and Luxemburg and the European Union(1996–2000). Prior to his postings as an ambassador, he was the high commissioner to Singapore (1981–84) and Tanzania (1984-86) and held the vice-chair of the preparatory committees of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), popularly known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
Dasgupta, an Economics honors graduate of the Delhi University and a distinguished fellow of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), has delivered several keynote addresses on Climate and Climate policies. He is a member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and is a former chairperson of the China Task Force. He served as the co-chairman of the EU-India Round Table and presented one of the key reports at the 12th EU-India Round Table held at Paris in July 2008. He sat in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from January 2007 to December 2010 and is an incumbent member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change. War and Diplomacy in Kashmir, 1947-48 is a book written by him, which details the genesis of the Kashmir conflict. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2008, for his contributions to Indian civil service.