Vanu Gopala Menon (born September 8, 1960) became the Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations on September 16, 2004,[1] a position he held until August 2011.
As an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,[2] Menon is the personal representative of the President of Singapore.
Menon was educated at the National University of Singapore, taking a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration in 1985.
He then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as First Secretary at Singapore's UN mission in New York (March 1988 – April 1991).
Returning to study on a Raffles Scholarship at the London School of Economics, he was awarded a Master of Science in International Relations in 1994.