Shri Sujan R. Chinoy


About Me:

  • Name:

    Shri Sujan R. Chinoy

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    Judiciary and Civil Services

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    Additional Secretary in the National Security Council Secretariat in the Prime Minister's Office in New Delhi for several years. He also served for many years as India's Consul General in China (Shanghai) and Australia (Sydney) handling trade and economic portfolios.

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 Education :  BA (Hons.) in English Literature and Psychology and Diploma in German from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and, his MBA in Marketing from B.K. School of Business Management, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad

Biography:Date of Birth: 27 September 1958.Chinoy was born to Romeshchandra Chinoy, a senior Indian Police Service officer and Usha Chinoy (née Joshi), a well-known musician, social worker and educationist; taught at the Rajkumar College, Rajkot . Usha Chinoy's grandfather, Vaidya Shastri Manishankar Govindji (Ma?ica?kar K?vintaji), founded the Ayurveda firm Atank Nigrah Pharmacy in Jamnagar in 1881. The Atank Nigrah Pharmacy was an early multi-national company, with branches in Singapore, Penang (Malaysia), Rangoon (Burma), Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Karachi (in the then undivided India), apart from major cities in India. Chinoy's paternal grandfather, Barrister C. N. Chinoy, was a two-term Dewan (Prime Minister) of the state of Rajkot during the 1930s-1940s after whom the pre-Independence "Infantry Road" in the old Cantonment area of Rajkot was renamed "Barrister Chinoy Road". Chinoy has two sisters, Dr. Parasmani Acharya and Dr. Mala R. Chinoy. Chinoy is a direct descendant of Seth Nanji Jekaran Shah (later Seth Nanji Chinai of Mangrol), an early Jain trader from Mangrol in coastal Saurashtra in Western India who founded the Gujarati community in Kolkata and was also the first Gujarati trader in Shanghai, and lived there for twelve years in the opening decades of the 19th century. The 200-year old Jain Derasar (Temple) in the town of Palitana in the Shatrunjay Mountain Range (in Gujarat), well known as ‘Nanji Chinai’s Chaumukhji Derasar’, was built with donations by Sujan Chinoy's ancestor Seth Nanji Jekaran Shah. This Derasar’s main Jain Tirthankar (nayak) is Chandraprabhu and it has 21 marble statues/idols and one metal statue/idol of each of the various Tirthankars of Jainism.

Chinoy is married to Vidya, a Spanish-language expert and a former official of the Ministry of External Affairs of India. They have two children, Kavita and Amar.

Chinoy is married to Vidya, a Spanish-language expert and a former official of the Ministry of External Affairs of India. They have two children, Kavita and Amar.