Amb. Dr. Prakash Joshi

Dr. Prakash Joshi joined the Indian Foreign Service in early 1970s. He went on to hold various senior positions with distinction in different parts of the world, including the Gulf region, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, etc., While posted to Guyana, South America as High Commissioner, he delivered on their TV network discourses on Gita for over two years. Dr. Prakash Joshi was educated in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, U.K. where he did Tripos in Mathematics. He had earlier graduated with high honours from the University of Bombay specializing in Mathematics. He was then nominated as a National Scholar and was awarded the prestigious Tata Scholarship for higher Education of Indians. During 1980s while posted in Delhi he completed his doctorate through the Jawaharlal Nehru University in the field of International Relations. He also qualified at that time as Interpreter in Arabic through the school of Foreign Languages, New Delhi. Dr. Prakash Joshi possesses excellent knowledge of Sanskrit, and has a distinguished family background. His father Dr. V.M. Joshi, I.C.S., D.sc. was a renowned statistician.