[12] He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar.

[2] He is the grandson of Dr. T. S. Tirumurti who was the Principal of Stanley Medical College, Chennai and Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University.

He served in Indian diplomatic missions in Cairo, Geneva, Gaza, Washington, D.C., Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur.

India was also elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for 2021-2025 and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) for the term 2021–2023.

[28] Again in May 2022, Tirumurti was in the news when he replied to a tweet by the Ambassador of the Netherlands to the UK and Northern Ireland who stated that India should not have abstained from voting in the UN General Assembly's session on Ukraine.

In the tweet, the Dutch envoy, Karel van Oosterom, said to Mr Tirumurti "You should not have abstained in the GA.

[29] Tirumurti has been a negotiator for climate change for several years, right from his stint in Geneva with the Permanent Mission of India to the UN (1993) and later as Joint Secretary and Head of Division of UN on economic and social matters at Headquarters.

Along with the Ambassador Burhan Gafoor of Singapore, he is credited with coining the term “Nationally Determined Contribution” at the Warsaw Conference of Parties of Climate Change in 2013.

Along with 9 other countries cutting across regions, Tirumurti drafted and read out an important statement on “Global Net Zero” at the UN during World Environment Day in June 2022.