Hamid Ali Rao
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Hamid Ali Rao | |
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| Joint Secretary to the External Affairs Minister | |
| In office August 2004 – December 2007 | |
| India's Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament | |
| In office 18 December 2007 – 10 September 2011 | |
| Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia | |
| In office 24 September 2011 – April 2015 | |
| Deputy Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) | |
| In office April 2015 – January 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) Meerut, India |
| Spouse | Asiya Hamid Rao |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent | M. A. Khan (father) |
| Education | M.A. in Political Science |
Hamid Ali Rao (born 1954) is a retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who served as India's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2011 to 2015, and as Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2007 to 2011. He also held the position of Deputy Director-General at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Hamid Ali Rao was born in 1954 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, to Kunwar Mahmood Ali Khan, a former governor of Madhya Pradesh.[1][2]
He holds a Master's degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB).[2]