Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian politician and retired diplomat who has served as the Minister of External Affairs since 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. He holds the distinction of being the longest-serving minister for External Affairs to hold the portfolio exclusively and the first former foreign secretary of India to head the ministry as a cabinet minister.