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CHIEF GUEST GUESTS OF HONOR

H.E. Sheikh Nahayan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan H. E. Satish Kumar Sivan
Cabinet Member, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence Consul General of India to Dubai
& Northern Emirates

His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan is the Minister of State for Tolerance, which was Mr. Satish Kumar Sivan assumed charge as Consul General of India to Dubai and the Northern Emirates on
announced in October 2017. His Excellency joined the Federal Government in 1992. He held several 9 October 2023. Mr. Satish Kumar Sivan is a career diplomat with nearly twenty years of rich experience
positions in the Federal Government including the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the working in the Government of India.
Minister of Education and the Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development.
At the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, Mr. Sivan has worked in various capacities including in
In addition to his ministerial duties, His Excellency had previously served in many positions in national External Affairs Minister’s Office, in East Asia Division handling relations with China, Korea and Mongolia,
universities. H.E. was the Chancellor of the United Arab Emirates University since 1983 to 2013, the until his recent assignment as Joint Secretary handling Rapid Response Cell and the Developmental
Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology from 1988 to 2013 and the President of Zayed University Partnership Administration Division that involved overseeing India’s Grant-in-aid projects in the
from 1998 to 2013. neighbouring countries.

His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan received his education from the British Millfield He has also served in different capacities in Indian Missions in Beijing, Washington DC and as the Deputy
School until secondary school before joining the Magdalen College at Oxford University - UK. Chief of Mission in Seoul.

Mr Satish Kumar Sivan has a Masters Degree in Commerce from the University of Madras. Mr. Sivan speaks
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada. He also speaks Chinese (Mandarin). He is married to Ms
Uma Parvathi Sivanesan and the couple have a son.

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