Mrs. Thomas joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976 at a very young age and is one of the youngest senior bureaucrats in India.

As a professional bureaucrat she has served in countries like Spain, Japan, and at Washington DC from 1990 to 1993 as the counselor Political. She subsequently has served as the Indian Ambassador to Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. After successfully flying the Indian flag during the challenging times of political unrest in Ivory Coast and Liberia she was the Indian Ambassador to Chile. As the Indian Ambassador to Chile she increased our bilateral trade from 200 million dollars to 2.5 billion dollars and successfully managed two Presidential visits to and from India.

She has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree from University of Santo Tomas in Santiago for her excellent work in Chile. She has also been recognized as one of the top Project Management Women Experts by the Project Management Institute in the US.

Her husband Thomas P. Thomas commonly called “Ravi” has been in the private sector for over 25 years. After completing his Masters from Delhi University, Mr. Thomas joined the TATAs and worked there till 1990. In 1990 he joined University of Maryland completed his MBA and an Executive Management Program from Wharton Business School. Subsequent to this he worked as the Technical Advisor to the Executive Director of International Monetary Fund, Washington DC before taking over as the Director of AT&T in India. He played a key role in successfully establishing AT&T in India when the government of India had just liberalized its telecom policy. 

In 1990 he ventured into his own business purchasing a nearly bankrupt manufacturing company in Chicago. He managed to turn it around and sold the company in year 2000. He is at present in two business ventures in the e-learning space.

Mr. Thomas is also a Project Management Professional from PMI US and contributes articles on Management to American Management Association.

 

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