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Professor S.D. Muni, presently Visiting Research Professor with the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, was Indias Special Envoy to Southeast Asian countries on UN Security Council Reforms (2005-06) and served as Indias Ambassador to Lao PDR (1997-1999). In 2005, the Sri Lankan President bestowed on him sri Lanka Ratna`, the highest Sri Lankan civilian honour for a non-national. He taught and supervised research at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India for 33 years since 1974. In the University he held the prestigious Appadorai Chair of International Relations and Area Studies. He has been a member of Indias University Grants Commissions Standing Committee on Area Studies, and an expert on the faculty selection boards of various Universities in India. He was the founder Editor of Indian Foreign Affairs Journal (2005-2008), (Cambridge University Press, India) and South Asia Journal (1990-94) (Sage India).