Jagat Singh Mehta is a former foreign secretary of India.
Jagat S. Mehta was born in 1922 to Mohan Sinha Mehta, and was educated at Allahabad and Cambridge Universities.
A career diplomat (1947–1980) he was foreign secretary from 1976 to 1979.
He was Chargé d'affaires China (1963–1966) and High Commissioner to Tanzania (1970–1974).
He was Associate at Harvard (1969 and 1980) and Fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., 1981. His publications include: Militarization in the Third World (1985); The March of Folly in Afghanistan (2002); and Negotiating for India (2006).
He received the Padma Bhushan award in 2002.