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Amb. Sujan Chinoy is the Director General of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi since 2019. A career diplomat from 1981-2018, he held several important diplomatic assignments, including as Ambassador to Japan. He is a specialist on China, East Asia and politico-military and security issues. He anchored as a team leader the CBMs/peace and tranquillity issues related to the India-China boundary dispute between 1996 and 2000. On deputation to the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) from 2008-2012, his expertise covered external and internal security issues including the extended neighbourhood of the Indo-Pacific. He has served as Consul General in Shanghai and Sydney and has extensive experience in trade, investment and economic issues.
He was the Chair of the Think20 engagement group for India’s G20 Presidency. He regularly contributes to newspapers and journals, besides lecturing in India and overseas.
He schooled at the Rajkumar College (Rajkot), read English Literature at the Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, Gujarat, and gained his Master of Business Administration from Gujarat University in Ahmedabad. He has an advanced Diploma in Chinese (Mandarin) from the New Asia Yale-in-China Chinese Language Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was an Exchange Student at the Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka in 1978.
He is fluent in English, Chinese (Mandarin) and conversant in French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Arabic, Urdu and French-Creole. He also speaks Hindi and Gujarati.
Addresses / Remarks
- Remarks by Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy at SIIS-CICIR International Symposium on Core Concerns of Major Powers and Their Role in Rebuilding of Afghanistan | February 16, 2022
- Keynote Address by Ambassador Sujan R.
Chinoy at IIM Rohtak | January 09, 2022 - Inaugural Address at 13th MP-IDSA SOUTH ASIA CONFERENCE | 16 December 2021
- Welcome Remarks by Ambassador Sujan R. Chinoy at MP-IDSA Seminar on ‘India and UN Peacekeeping – An Appraisal’ | October 01, 2021
- Introductory Remarks by Ambassador Sujan R. Chinoy at 5th India-Iran-Afghanistan Trilateral Dialogue | 31 March 2021
- Opening Remarks by Ambassador Sujan R Chinoy At MP-IDSA & Gusau Institute, Nigeria Webinar | 30 March 2021
- Welcome Remarks by Ambassador Sujan R Chinoy
At The K. Subrahmanyam Memorial Lecture | 25 February 2021 - Opening Remarks by Ambassador Sujan R Chinoy on “India’s Cyber Preparedness” | 29 January 2021
- Opening Remarks by Ambassador Sujan R Chinoy on “Nuclear Disarmament in the Era of Weakening Arms Control” | 22 January 2021
- Inaugural Address by Amb Sujan R. Chinoy on Deciphering China – The Maritime Context | 26 November 2020
- Address by Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy Director General, MP-IDSA At Herat Security Dialogue 2020 | 12 November 2020
- Welcome Address by Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy Director General, MP-IDSA At Lecture by H.E. Dr. Abdullah Abdullah Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation of Afghanistan 8 October 2020
- DG, IDSA Remarks at M.L. Sondhi Webinar on Regional Dynamics: Will the QUAD lead to a Coalition of Democracie 10 September 2020
- Opening Remarks on UN@75: India and the Future of Multilateralism 4 September 2020
- Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy's Address at Webinar Hosted by the Embassy of India in Mexico on India-Mexico Relations
- Amb Sujan R. Chinoy's Inaugural Address on Indian Foreign Policy | IOFS Batch Training Module
- Amb Sujan R. Chinoy on National Security (Defence & Security Challenges posed by China and Pakistan)
- Welcome Remarks by Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy | 4th West Asia Conference
- Opening Remarks by Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy | 12th South Asia Conference
- Welcome Address by Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy | 12th South Asia Conference
- Welcome Address by Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy | Aim and Objective of Capsule
India at the OIC: Recognition of a Rising Global Power
The best option would be for India to continue to work with individual members of the OIC to establish friendly relations and deepen bilateral cooperation, and work to negate the machinations of Pakistan within the OIC.
AK-203: A Boost for the Army and Make in India
That the AK-203 would be produced in India with 100 per cent indigenous content in less than three years makes it a win-win deal for the Army and the Make in India initiative, with Ordnance Factory Korwa emerging as the biggest winner.