Bio
Navdeep Suri completed a distinguished 36-year career in the Indian Foreign Service in 2019, having served in India’s diplomatic missions in Cairo, Damascus, Washington, Dar es Salaam and London and as India’s Consul General in Johannesburg. He was India’s High Commissioner to Australia and Ambassador to Egypt and UAE and has been acknowledged for his role in promoting trade and investment links with these countries. In a rare gesture, the President of UAE conferred on him the Order of Zayed II, the country’s second-highest civilian award. His innovative use of social media in public diplomacy in 2010 also received extensive recognition and two prestigious awards.
Navdeep Suri has learnt Arabic and French, has a master’s degree in Economics and is a respected commentator on geopolitical and geoeconomics developments in the Middle East. He has also co-edited the ORF-Global Policy books A 2030 Vision for India’s Economic Diplomacy, I2U2: Pathways for a new minilateral and IMEC:Towards a new discourse in global connectivity.
He is also Professor of Eminence at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar. His English translations of his grandfather Nanak Singh’s classic Punjabi novels have been published by Penguin as The Watchmaker and by Harper Collins as A Life Incomplete, Khooni Vaisakhi, Hymns in Blood and A Game of Fire.
His new book Bridging the Gulf – The Re-making of India-UAE relations will be released in November 2026.
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