Background
Prakash Shah was born in Bombay, India.
Prakash Shah was born in Bombay, India.
Prakash studied at the University of Bombay in Bombay, India. He became a Bachelor of Arts in economics. Later, he received a degree of the Bachelor of Laws. He received a degree of the Master in the area of commerce.
Prakash was a probationary officer at the State Bank of India in Bombay, India. He became the third secretary of the Indian Mission to European Economics Cmty. and the Indian Embassy in Brussels, Belgium. Also, he was the second secretary of the Embassy of India, in Washington, United States.
Prakash worked as an undersecretary of the Ministry of External Affairs. He became a deputy secretary of the Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance. He was the first secretary, counselor petroleum affairs of the Embassy of India in Tehran, Iran.
Prakash was a director of the Ministry of Petroleum, Government of India, director, and joint secretary to three Prime Ministers of India. He was a high commissioner of India to Malaysia and Brunei at the Ministry of External Affairs. Prakash was an ambassador of India to Venezuela in Caracas, consul general to the Netherlands of the Ministry of External Affairs.
He worked as a joint secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, India. He became an additional secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, India.
Later, he became an ambassador, permanent representative of India of the United Nations in Geneva. Also, he was an ambassador to Japan of the United Nations in Tokyo, Japan. Prakash became an ambassador and permanent representative of India of the United Nations in New York City, United States.
Prakash is married to Radhika Bhattacharyya Shah.