Shilendra Kumar Singh was an Indian diplomat. He was Governor of Arunachal Pradesh from December 2004 to September 2007 and Governor of Rajasthan from September 2007 until he died in office in December 2009.
Education
He is an alumnus of St Johns College, Agra which is affiliated to Agra University where he received a Bachelor's Degree in History, Sanskrit and Hindi.
He attended the Agra University and received a Master's Degree in History and an LLB Degree. Thereafter he read Persian and International Law at Trinity College, Cambridge
Career
Singh began his career in the Indian Foreign Service in 1954. From 1956 to 1959, he was Third Secretary in Iran and concurrently attended the Tehran University to study the Persian language. From 1959-62 he was assigned to various desks in the Foreign Office in Delhi. From 1962-68 he was a member of the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York.
Singh was President of the Group of 77 and also served as India's Governor on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Singh has been a member of 19 Indian delegations to the UN General Assembly and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Singh has monitored for the Commonwealth and the United Nations, general elections in South Africa, Kenya, Algeria, Lesotho, Malawi and Sierra Leone and the presidential election in Sri Lanka. Singh is rated among the most distinguished in his generation of Indian diplomats.