Meera Shankar
IFS 1973 (retired Ambassador to the United States)
End of US posting July 2011 to Adani Transmission 17 Jun 2015: about 3 years 11 months.. Then Adani Transmission Ltd.
The cooling-off rule
The rule: CCS (Pension) Rules (rule 10 of the 1972 Rules, now rule 9 of 2021): Group A central service officers, including the IFS, need prior sanction for commercial employment within one year of retirement.
Outside any one-year rule.
Before and after
Documented
Ambassador of India to the United States
Interval not dated.
Documented
Adani Transmission Ltd (now AESL)
Independent Director, 17 Jun 2015 to 30 Jun 2025
6. Mrs. Meera Shankar 06374957 17/06/2015
What the office had to do with the company
No decision by her involving an Adani company found. Her posts were diplomatic; she had no regulatory role over the power-transmission business.
What was said
None found; none sought.
Sources
Dates and filings placed side by side; being listed is not a finding of wrongdoing. Sources were opened on Oct 2026.
Photo: U.S. Department of State (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain