Having joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1965, Satish Chandra went on to take up important diplomatic assignments in the Indian missions in Vienna, Karachi, Washington D.C., Algiers, and Dhaka. Later, he served as India’s Permanent Representative to UN Offices in Geneva, Ambassador to the Philippines and High Commissioner to Pakistan. He was also Secretary to the National Security Council Secretariat. Ever since his retirement in 2005 as Deputy National Security Advisor, he has been actively engaged in writing on national security and strategic matters.