Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) has over 180 members from 26 countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders, dedicated to addressing security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, with a particular focus on nuclear non-proliferation, risk reduction, and disarmament.
Sujata MEHTA
Sujata Mehta has served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the Conference on Disarmament.
Sujata Mehta was a Member of India's Union Public Service Commission till March 2022. Prior to this, till she retired from the Indian Foreign Service in February 2017, she was a career diplomat with experience in both the multilateral and bilateral fields in different capacities across a broad range of subjects. She was designated as Secretary (West) in India's Ministry of External Affairs in January 2016.
She earlier served as Secretary, and Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs (2013 -2015) overseeing the development cooperation programmes and activities pursued by the Foreign Ministry's Development Partnership Administration, all economic diplomacy activities, and was India's BRICS Sherpa.