Meet Kshitij Tyagi, the Engineer-turned-diplomat who slammed Pakistan at UN

Kshitij Tyagi, a Counsellor at India’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, has delivered a fiery speech against Pakistan at the United Nations.At the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Tyagi strongly criticised Pakistan, calling it a “failed state” that survives on “international handouts.”

#WATCH | Geneva: At the 7th Meeting – 58th Session of Human Rights Council, Indian Diplomat Kshitij Tyagi says, “India is exercising its right of reply in response to the baseless and malicious references made by Pakistan. It is regrettable to see Pakistan’s so-called leaders and… pic.twitter.com/7Bg5j8jZJX

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He further condemned Pakistan’s leaders and delegates, adding that it was ‘regrettable’ to see how they “spread falsehoods handed down by its military terrorist complex.”Who is Kshitij Tyagi?

Kshitij Tyagi, an engineer-turned-diplomat, is the Counsellor at India’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, a position he has held since January of this year. Previously, he worked as the First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN in Geneva for a year.

The diplomat has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He then pursued an MTech in thermal energy and environmental engineering at the same institute. Tyagi then became a business analyst at Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate firm, where he worked for nearly three years from 2007 to 2010.

His tenure with the Indian government began in April 2010, after he joined the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy as a scientist. He worked there for over two years before passing the civil services exam in 2012.

He began his career as an Indian diplomat by joining the Foreign Service Institute in Delhi after being trained as an Indian Foreign Service officer at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration.

In June 2014, Tyagi was posted as Third Secretary at the Indian Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, where he served for a year and seven months. Later, in December 2015, he joined the Indian Embassy in Brazil as Second Secretary, before being appointed to India’s First Secretary in Egypt in 2018.

He was appointed First Secretary of India’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations last year, in January 2024. He was then promoted to Counsellor at the mission by January 2025, within a year.