Ambassador Anil Trigunayat is a Visiting Fellow at NIICE. He specializes on International Relation and Diplomacy. His core areas of interest and expertise are trade, investment and Economic Diplomacy and takes special interest in developments in Middle East, Africa and Russia. He is currently the President of MIICCIA Chamber of Commerce & Industry. As a member of the Indian Foreign Service, he has served in the Indian Missions in Cote d’Ivoire, Bangladesh, Mongolia, USA, Russia, Sweden and Nigeria, Libya and Jordan. In the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) he has worked in the Economic, West Asia and North Africa and Consular Divisions. He also served as Director General/Joint Secretary for the Gulf & Haj Divisions in the MEA, New Delhi. Thereafter, he worked as Deputy Chief of Mission in the rank of Ambassador in the Embassy of India, Moscow. Prior to his superannuation in May 2016, he served as Ambassador of India to Jordan and Libya and High Commissioner to Malta (June 2012 – May 2016). He is a post Graduate in Physics from the Agra/Kumaon University and also studied Russian History, Culture and Language at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. As a visiting fellow he also conducted research work on “WTO and Regional Trading Blocs” at the Oxford University. He is a member of the All India Management Association/Delhi Management Association as well as that of Oxford and Cambridge Society of India and the Association of Indian Diplomats (former Ambassadors). He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation apart from being a Board Member of Peaceful Mind Foundation. He is the Honorary Member of the International Trade Council, Brussels and Honorary Adviser to BRICS Chamber of Commerce.