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“The Indian Economy: Opportunities for Business and Industry”

The Honorable Parvathaneni Harish
Consul General of India in Houston

Mr. Parvathaneni Harish joined the India Foreign Service in 1990 and became the Consul General of India, Houston on July 30, 2012.
He has served in India Mission in Cairo and Riyadh and headed the Post as India Representative to the Palestinian Authority stationed in Gaza City. He worked with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as the Chief of the Policy Analysis Unit at UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza.
He thereafter worked in the East Asia and External Publicity Divisions in the Ministry of External Affairs. For a period of five years since 2007, Mr. Harish was the Joint Secretary and Officer on Special Duty to the Honorable Vice President of India and Chairman of the Council of States of the Indian Parliament, Mr. M. Hamid Ansari.
Mr. Parvathaneni Harish is a mechanical engineering graduate from Osmania University College of Engineering, Hyderabad. He is married to Mrs. Parvathaneni Nandita and has two daughters, Ayushi and Amani.