Prakash Shah

{{short description|Indian diplomat}}

{{for|Indian journalist-writer|Prakash N. Shah}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Use Indian English|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Prakash Shah

| office = Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations

| term_start = February 1995

| term_end = July 1997

| predecessor = Mohammad Hamid Ansari

| successor = Kamalesh Sharma

}}

Prakash Shah is an Indian diplomat. He has been Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations from February 1995 to July 1997. In August 1998, he was also appointed by Kofi Annan as special envoy to Baghdad during the arms conflict in Iraq.{{cite web | url=http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9808/20/un.iraq/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822044352/http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9808/20/un.iraq/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=22 August 2019 | title=U.N. keeps sanctions on Iraq | work=CNN | date=20 August 1998 | accessdate=22 August 2019}}{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/150507.stm | title=World: Middle East 'Low-key' crisis in Iraq | work=BBC | date=13 August 1998 | accessdate=22 August 2019}} From 1977 to 1980, he also served as Joint Secretary to Prime Minister of India; Morarji Desai, Charan Singh and Indira Gandhi.{{cite web | url=https://www.iaac.us/Bios/Prakash_Shah.htm | title=Ambassador Prakash Shah | work=Indo-American Art Council | accessdate=22 August 2019}}

Currently, he is also on the Board of Advisors of India's International Movement to Unite Nations (I.I.M.U.N.) and also servers as the Chairperson of the Academic Advisory Council of I.I.M.U.N. [https://new.iimun.in/pages/BoA.html]{{Cite web|title=I.I.M.U.N. {{!}}{{!}} Academic Advisory Council|url=https://new.iimun.in/pages/AAC.html|access-date=2021-07-17|website=new.iimun.in}}