Background
Menon, Vanu Gopala was born on September 8, 1960 in Singapore.
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Vanu Gopala Menon
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Bachelor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore, 1985. Master of Science in International Relations, London School of Economic and Political Science, University of London, 1994.
Career
As an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Menon is the personal representative of the President of Singapore. He then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as First Secretary at Singapore's UN mission in New York (March 1988 – April 1991). Returning to study on a Raffles Scholarship at the London School of Economics, he was awarded a Master of Science in International Relations in 1994.
Menon then served in the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 1994 – November 1997). On his return to Singapore, he joined the Policy, Planning and Analysis Directorate of the Ministry, rising to become its Director (December 1998 – October 2001). He left that position for Geneva where he represented Singapore to the UN, whilst also serving as Singapore's Ambassador to Turkey (December 2001 – August 2004).
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Married; 1 child.
