B Venkatesh Varma<\b>
B. Venkatesh Varma was a student of Vidyaranya, Hyderabad Public School, Nizam College and Jawaharlal Nehru University; He served in the Indian Foreign Service between 1988 and 2021. He was Ambassador to the Conference of Disarmament Geneva, and to Spain, and most recently to Russia (2018-21)