Kamalesh_sharma

Kamalesh Sharma (born ca. 1941) is the High Commissioner of India in London, and has been elected to the office of Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008. Kamalesh Sharma is new Commonwealth Secretary-General. Commonwealth Secretariat. Retrieved on 2007-11-24.

Kamalesh Sharma in an alumnus of the St. Stephen\'s College in Delhi and the King\'s College, Cambridge. Kamalesh Sharma, Indian High Commissioner. Judge Business School, Cambridge. Retrieved on 2007-11-24. Sharma was an officer in the Indian Foreign Service from 1965 to 2001. He served as India\'s Permanent Representative to the United Nations before his retirement from IFS. From 2002 to 2004, he served as U.N. Secretary General\'s special representative to East Timor. He was appointed as the High Commissioner of India to Britain in 2004. "India to field Kamalesh Sharma for C\'wealth job", The Hindu, 2007-06-07. Retrieved on 2007-11-24. 

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

Sharma was elected to the position of secretary-general over Michael Frendo, foreign minister of Malta,"Kamlesh Sharma for C\'wealth top job", Times Now, 2007-11-24. Retrieved on 2007-11-24.  during the biennial Commonwealth summit in Kampala, Uganda held from 22 November to 24 November, 2007. He will take over the post on 1 April 2008 from the current secretary-general Don McKinnon of New Zealand."Indian diplomat to be new head of Commonwealth", Reuters, Africa, 2007-11-24. Retrieved on 2007-11-24. 

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