K. P. S. Menon Jr. Explained

Office:	15th Foreign Secretary of India
Term:	January 1987 - February 1989
Successor:	Shilendra Kumar Singh
Office2:	Ambassador of India to China
Death Place:	Thiruvananthapuram
Predecessor:	A. P. Venkateswaran
Predecessor2:	Katyayani Shankar Bajpai
Term2:	26 March 1985-12 February 1987
Successor2:	C. V. Ranganathan

Kizhake Palat Sankara Menon was an Indian diplomat.^{[1] [2]}

Early life and background

He was the son of K. P. S. Menon Sr.^[3] Menon studied at The Doon School, and St. Stephen's College in Delhi and later at the Oxford University.

Career

He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1951. He served as the Indian ambassador to China, and later as the Foreign Secretary.

Menon died in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 90 and was cremated.^[4]

References

1. News: 2019-09-29. Former Foreign Secretary K.P.S. Menon passes away. en-IN. The Hindu. 2021-07-13. 0971-751X.
2. News: Sreenivasan. T. p. 2019-09-30. The doyen of a diplomatic dynasty. en-IN. The Hindu. 2021-07-13. 0971-751X.
3. News: Ap. 1982-11-22. K.P.S. Menon of India Dies; Ex-Envoy to Soviet and China. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-07-13. 0362-4331.
4. Web site: Former diplomat K P S Menon Jr cremated in Kerala. 2021-07-13. The New Indian Express.