Sibi George was born to Sri. PT George Podimattathil and Smt. Ammini George Uzhuthual at Pala on 26th July 1967. He has a brother, Sabu, and sister, Deepa.

He had his schooling at Pala St. Vincent English Medium High school run by the CMI Mission and college education at Pala St. Thomas College. An outstanding student during his school and college days, he won the first rank in public examinations and internals.

He graduated in political science with gold medal in 1988 and completed his post graduation in 1990 in the same discipline, standing first in the university and again cornering the gold medal.

To quote his professor and the present Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University Dr. Cyriac Thomas, "the highest marks Sibi scored in the Post Graduate examination remains unbroken even after a decade."

After experimenting with Law at the Ernakulam Law College for some time, Sibi left for Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, toying with the idea of joining the Indian Civil Service in addition to taking an M.Phil. Finally, in 1993, he got selected to the prestigious Indian Foreign Service. But academic pursuit did not stop there and he is continuing his scholastic pursuits to become a Ph.d holder in the subject.

He has also taken two- year postgraduate-diploma in Arabic language and Culture from the American University in Cairo.

An avid reader of history, Sibi believes that to understand the present a proper reading of the past is necessary and the knowledge of history is highly significant for many reasons.

Before taking the assignment in Doha, he had served as Assistant Commissioner (Training) at Shillong in Meghalaya, Ministry of External affairs in New Delhi and at the embassy of India in Cairo, Egypt.

He joined the Indian embassy in Doha as the second secretary in 1998 and was promoted as first secretary in 2000. He is due to take up his new assignment, at the Ministry of external affairs, with in a couple of months.