Former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi was appointed to be a life trustee of the India International Centre in New Delhi, an IIC statement said on Thursday.
Gopalkrishna Devdas Gandhi is an Indian politician and a former diplomat who served as the 23rd Governor of West Bengal serving from 2004 to 2009. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.
He would be filling the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, it said.
Mr. Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is a retired diplomat and served as West Bengal governor from 2004 till 2009.”He has held various important positions in the State of Tamil Nadu and at the National Capital…He has also served as India’s High Commissioner to South Africa (1996-97) and Secretary to President K R Narayanan (1997-2000). He was India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka (2000-2002) and Ambassador to Norway (2002-2004),” the statement said.
Mr. Gandhi and his wife, Tara Gandhi, live in Chennai.
Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi was India’s High Commissioner when Mandela was the President of South Africa. N. N. Vohra, President, IIC, and former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, will chair the webinar. Suhas Borker, Convener Working Group on Alternative Strategies and South African High Commissioner to New Delhi Joel Sibosiso Ndebele will also speak on the occasion.
