Chokila Iyer is an Indian diplomat and civil servant who served as

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's first female foreign secretary from March 2001 to June 2002. She is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1964 batch and served as the Ambassador of India to

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Post-diplomatic career

National Commission for Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes

Iyer, after retiring from Foreign Secretary post, worked as vice chairperson of National Commission for Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes. Former

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J.S. Verma was heading the commission, which had started functioning in October 2008.

New Broadcasting Standards Authority

On 19 February 2009 Iyer was appointed the member of the New Broadcasting Standards Authority. The authority was commissioned to implement a code of ethics and broadcasting standards for broadcasts by news channels in the country. She was given the membership, under the "eminent persons" category to set up to enforce the code of ethics and broadcasting standards for news channels.

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