Both Ronen Sen and Farida Khambata will be Non-Executive Independent Directors of Tata Sons Limited, the company said in a statement. Sen was India's Ambassador to the US from 2004 to 2009.
Ronen Sen is one of India's most seasoned diplomats, some even calling him India's first economic diplomat.
The Hindu newspaper's cache of Wikileaks cables is perhaps the biggest ever expose of the official but secret contract between American and Indian diplomats. CNBC-TV18's Karan Thapar discusses, the nature of the relationship, the extent to which information was shared as well as American pressure on critical decisions, with the panelists.