India's former telecom secretary J S Deepak has joined Bharti Airtel Ltd. as group director for policy and international strategy of the company, The Economic Times reports, citing an internal note of the company. Deepak previously served as additional secretary at the Department of Commerce before being appointed as secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and IT. He took up the role of telecom secretary in February 2016, then shifted to the post of officer on special duty in the commerce department in 2017.