Chokila Iyer is an Indian diplomat and civil servant who served as India'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 the Republic of Ireland.
Verma was heading the commission, which had started functioning in October 2008.
[citation needed] On 19 February 2009 Iyer was appointed the member of the New Broadcasting Standards Authority.
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.