Ashok Malik is Partner and Chair of the India Practice at The Asia Group, a business and strategic advisor firm headquartered in Washington, DC.[1] He is former policy advisor/additional secretary in theMinistry of External Affairs,government of India, having served in that position from October 2019 to August 2022. While in that role, he was the highest ranked non-career civil servant in the Ministry.[2] He was also a member of prestigiousPadma Award committee 2023.[1]
From 1 August 2017, to 31 July 2019, Malik served as press secretary to thePresident of India. He relinquished office after his two-year term came to an end.
Prior to joining government, Malik was a distinguished fellow at theObserver Research Foundation,[3] a public policy think-tank based in India. As a columnist, he wrote for a publications such asTimes of India andHindustan Times.[4]
Born in 1969, Malik studied atLa Martiniere Calcutta (Kolkata), and graduated fromPresidency College (now University) in the same city. He began his career in theTelegraph newspaper in Calcutta in 1991 and subsequently was associated with other publications such asTimes of India,India Today andIndian Express.[citation needed]
In 2006, he embarked on a career as a self-employed columnist.[5] In 2015 he joined the Observer Research Foundation. In 2016, he was awarded thePadma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.[6]
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