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Bharat Joshi

British Deputy High Commissioner, Chennai

Part of UK in India

13th November 2013 Chennai, India

Royal Visit to Kerala: Day 2

HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of CornwalllToday is the most challenging day. Two separate programmes for their Royal Highnesses mean that all our staff will be in the field, leaving limited surge capacity to handle any unexpected issues. and weather forecasts predicting the start of the monsoon add to the risks.

His Royal Highness will visit Cochin Shipyard where UK companies are heavily involved in building ships, including on the first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant. He will then travel out of Cochin to visit an innovative approach for animal conservation at one of India’s elephant corridors, engaging with NGOs including Elephant Family, Wildlife Trust of India, Wildlife Protection Society of India and WWF – of which HRH is patron – and meet wildlife guards active in the reserve.HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

The Duchess of Cornwall has an equally full programme, visiting a Nursing School, a ground-breaking Women’s self-reliance programme called “Kudumbushree”, and a fantastic school which will highlight the British Council’s education partnerships in Kerala.

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About Bharat Joshi

Bharat was brought up in Kent. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1995 from the hotel industry and has had diplomatic postings to the Gambia, Dhaka and…

Bharat was brought up in Kent. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1995 from the hotel industry and has
had diplomatic postings to the Gambia, Dhaka and Qatar. He was most
recently British High Commissioner to Cameroon, and non-Resident Ambassador to Gabon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea and Central African Republic.
Before that he worked as a Private Secretary to two British Ministers, as well as in various Departments of the FCO including the European Union Department and Press Office.
Bharat has experience of crisis management and has been deployed to the scenes of major incidents involving British nationals, including after the tragic bombing of the British Consulate-General in Istanbul in 2003.
Bharat’s varied career has been spent dealing with a full range of
HMG objectives, including promoting political and economic reform and
improved human rights; improved UK prosperity through trade; climate
change and UN policy issues. A major part of his portfolio in Chennai is supporting mutual prosperity between the UK and India, transforming lives through jobs, entrepreneurship and skills partnerships.
Bharat has been very happily married (at least forhim) to Bhakti for 18 years and they have two
wonderful daughters. His interests are cricket, badminton, history, reading and travelling.
Bharat speaks English, French, Gujarati and Hindi and Spanish, and is desperate to learn Tamil.

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