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List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India

Summary

High commissioners represent India's diplomatic missions in member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and ambassadors represent diplomatic missions in other states. The head of a diplomatic mission to an international organization is called a permanent representative.

Current ambassadors and high commissioners edit

Ambassadors and high commissioners edit

Host country List Ambassador/High Commissioner Took office Websites Refs
  Afghanistan Rudendra Tandon June 2022 EOI, Kabul
  Algeria List Gaurav Ahluwalia August 2020 EOI, ALgiers
  Angola List Vidhu P Nair February 2024 EOI, Angola
  Argentina
Accredited to:
 Dinesh Bhatia August 2019 EOI, Buenos Aires
  Armenia Nilakshi Saha April 2023 EOI, Yerevan
  Australia
Accredited to:
 Gopal Baglay Jan 2024 HCI, Canberra [1]
  Austria Jaideep Mazumdar 2019 EOI, Vienna
  Azerbaijan Sridharan Madhusudan May 2023 EOI, Baku
  Bahrain Vinod K Jacob August 2023 EOI, Baharain
  Bangladesh List Pranay Verma (Ambassador Designate) July 2022 HCI, Dhaka [2]
  Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha 18 May 2021 EOI, Minsk [3]
  Belgium Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 Official Website [4]
  Bhutan List Sudhakar Dalela April 2019 EOI, Thimpu
  Bosnia and Herzegovina Partha Sathpathy EOI, Hungary and Bosnia & Herzegovina
  Botswana Bharath Kumar Kuthati July 2023 HCI, Gaborone
  Brazil Suresh Reddy September 2020 EOI, Brasilia
  Brunei Darussalam Alok Amitabh Dimri March 2022 HCI, Brunei
  Bulgaria Sanjay Rana 10 February 2021 EOI, Sofia
  Burkina Faso Vijay Singh Chauhan 24 March 2019 EOI, Ouagadougou
  Cambodia Devyani Khobragade September 2020 EOI, Phonm Penh
  Cameroon Anindya Banerjee 21 February 2022 HCI, Yaounde
  Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma June 2022 HCI, Ottawa [5]
  Chile Subrata Bhattacharjee 28 May 2021 EOI, Santiago [6]
  China List Pradeep Kumar Rawat 7 January 2019 EOI, Beijing
  Colombia Vanna Luma 2022 EOI, Bogota
  DR Congo
Accredited to:
 Ram Karan Verma 18 November 2020 EOI, Kinshasa
  Congo, Republic of Madan Lal Raigar 20 October 2023 EOI, Brazzavile
  Cote D'Ivoire
Accredited to:
 Rajesh Ranjan 9 January 2023 EOI, Abidjaan
  Croatia Rajkumar Shrivastava 12 June 2020 EOI, Zagreb
  Cuba S. Janakiraman EOI, Havana
  Cyprus Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 11 November 2019 HCI, Nicosia
  Czech Republic Hemant H. Kotalwar EOI, Prague
  Denmark Pooja Kapoor 10 February 2021 EOI, Copenhegen
  Djibouti Ashok Kumar April 2019 EOI, Djibouti
  Egypt Ajit Vinayak Gupte 10 February 2021 EOI, Cairo
  Equatorial Guinea Man Mohan Bhanot April 2019 EOI, Malabo
  Eswatini N Ram Prasad 01 August 2023 HCI, Mbabane
  Eritrea Subhash Chand May 2019
  Ethiopia[a] Robert Shetkintong October 2020 EOI, Addis Ababa
  Fiji
Accredited to:
 P. S. Karthigeyan 8 July 2021 HCI, Suva
  Finland Raveesh Kumar 17 July 2020 EOI, Helsinki
  France
Accredited to:
 List Jawed Ashraf 13 July 2020 EOI, Paris [7]
  Germany List Parvathaneni Harish 6 November 2021 EOI, Berlin [8]
  Ghana C. Sugandha Rajaram 6 December 2019 HCI, Accra
  Greece List Rudrendra Tandon 3 October 2019 EOI, Athens
  Guatemala Manoj Kumar Mohapatra December 2021 EOI, Guatemala
  Guinea T. C. barupal
  Guyana K. J. Srinivasa[9] 14 August 2019 HCI, Georgetown
  Honduras B. S. Mubarak 1 February 2019
  Hungary Partha Sathpathy
  Iceland B. Shyam 31 July 2021 EOI, Reykjavik [10]
  Indonesia Sandeep Chakravorty August 2023 EOI, Jakarta
  Iran Rudra Gaurav Shreshth
  Iraq Prashant Pise August 2021
  Ireland Akhilesh Mishra 5 August 2021 EOI, Dublin
  Israel List Sanjeev Singla October 2019
  Italy Neena Malhotra
  Jamaica R. Masakui
  Japan Sibi George
  Jordan Anwar Haleem
  Kazakhstan Subhadarshini Tripathi 10 February 2021
  Kenya List
  North Korea -Vacant-
  Korea Amit Kumar
  Kuwait Adarsh Swaika
  Kyrgyzstan A. K. Chatterjee
  Lebanon Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh
  Lesotho Jaideep Sarkar 5 September 2019
  Liberia Pradip Kumar Yadav 24 May 2021 [ EOI, Monoriva] [11]
  Libya Vacant
  Madagascar List Wilson Babu January 2019
  Malawi S. Gopalakrishnan
  Malaysia B. Nagabhushana Reddy 10 August 2021 HCI, Kuala Lumpur
  Maldives Munu Mahawar (High Commissioner October, 2021 Official Website
  Mali Anjani Kumar 7 November 2019
  Malta Gloria Gangte 10 February 2021
  Mauritius K. Nandini Singla
  Mexico (with   Niue,   Samoa) Mridul Kumar
  Mongolia T. Suresh Babu
  Morocco Rajesh Vaishnaw
  Mozambique Ankan Banerjee 10 February 2021
  Myanmar Vinay Kumar 24 February 2022 EOI Yangon
  Namibia M Subbarayudu
    Nepal Naveen Srivastava 17 May 2022[12]
  Netherlands Mrs. Reenat Sandhu https://www.indianembassynetherlands.gov.in/
  New Zealand Neeta Bhushan
  Niger Rajesh Agrawal
  Nigeria[b] G Balasubramaniam 1 March 2019
  Norway Acquino Vimal September 2019
  Oman Amit Narang 21 August 2018
  Pakistan List M. Suresh Kumar (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)
  Papua New Guinea S Inbasekar
  Paraguay Yogeshwar Sangwan 5 February 2022 EOI, Asuncion
  Peru Krishna R. Urs
  Philippines Shambhu S. Kumaran [13] 10 June 2020
  Poland Nagma Mohammad Mallick 9 July 2021 EOI, Warshaw
  Portugal Manish Chauhan
  Qatar Deepak Mittal 29 April 2020 EOi, Doha
  Romania List Rahul Shrivastava 5 June 2020 Official Website [14]
  Russia List Pawan Kapoor
  Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz Khan[15] 16 January 2023 EOI, Riyadh
  Senegal Dinkar Asthana August, 2022
  Serbia Shubhdarshini Tripathi September 2023 EOI, Belgrade
  Seychelles Kartik Pande November 2022
  Singapore Shilpak Ambule [16]
  Slovak Republic Apoorva Srivastava 15 October 2022 eoibratislava.gov.in
  Slovenia Namrata S
  South Africa Prabhat Kumar July/August 2023
  Sudan B. S. Mubarak
  Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay 1 February 2020 hcicolombo.gov.in [17]
  Sudan Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal
  Suriname Shankar Bala Chandran
  Sweden &   Latvia Tanmaya Lal
   Switzerland &   Liechtenstein List Vani Rao
  Tajikistan JP Singh
  Tanzania List Binaya Srikanta Pradhan 20 July 2021 Dar Es Salaam
  Thailand Nagesh Singh
  Trinidad and Tobago (with   Grenada) Raju Sharma (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.) July 2022[c]
  Tunisia N. J. Gangte
  Turkey Virander Paul
  Turkmenistan Vidhu P. Nair
  Ukraine Harsh Kumar
  United Arab Emirates List Pavan Kapoor [18] 28 August 2019
  United Kingdom List Vikram Doraiswami (High Commissioner Designate) Official Website [19]
  United States List Taranjit Singh Sandhu[20] 28 January 2020
  Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat[21] 10 August 2020
  Venezuela Abhishek Singh 2016
  Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma[22] 1 March 2019
  Yemen -Vacant-
  Zambia Ashok Kumar
  Zimbabwe Vijay Khanduja Official Website

Honorary consuls edit

Host country High Commissioner / Ambassador Refs
  Albania
  Moldova		 concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest.
  Aruba
  Barbados
  Belize Shamim Aktar
  Benin
  Bolivia T. N. Mayyas
  Central African Republic Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo
  Chad Abhay Thakur [23]
  Comoros Abhay Kumar 28 May 2019 [d]
  Costa Rica Upendra Singh Rawat 3 December 2019 [e]
  Dominican Republic
  Estonia Radha Venkataraman 17 May 2019
  Ecuador Sanjiv Ranjan[f] 2 September 2019
  El Salvador
  Gabon Nina Tshering La [g][24]
  Gambia G. V. Srinivas 24 October 2019 [h]
  Georgia Kishan Dan Dewal[i] 11 October 2019
  Guinea (with   Cape Verde) G. V. Srinivas 23 September 2019 [j]
  Haiti
  Honduras
  Liberia Y. K. Sailas Thangal
  Lithuania
  Luxembourg
  Mauritania
  Montenegro Jaideep Mazumdar [25]
  Netherlands Antilles
  Nicaragua (with   Panama) Upendra Singh Rawat 18 October 2019 [k]
  North Macedonia
  Réunion
  Saint Kitts and Nevis
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Junior Bacchus
  Saint Lucia
  Sierra Leone
  Togo M. S. Padmaja 13 November 2019

Permanent representatives to international organizations edit

Host organization Location Permanent Representatives and Deputy Representatives Took office Ref.
Conference on Disarmament Geneva Shamim Aktar 11 November 2018 [26]
  European Union[EU] Brussels Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 [27]
  United Nations New York City Ruchira Kamboj (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) 1 July 2022 [28]
Geneva Indramani Pandey October 2020 [29][30]
  UNESCO Paris Vishal V. Sharma October 2020 [31]
  World Trade Organisation Geneva Brajendra Navneet 29 June, 2021 [32]
  ASEAN Jakarta Jayant N. Khobragade 20 January 2021 [33]
  African Union[AU] Addis Ababa Robert Shetkintong March 2020
  IAEA Vienna Malina Paul Jan 2022
  • AU – Since March 2005, Indian Ambassador appointed to Ethiopia, with office in Addis Ababa, is also concurrently accredited as the Permanent Representative of India to the African Union.
  • EU – Indian Ambassador appointed to the Kingdom of Belgium, with office in Brussels, is also concurrently accredited as the Permanent Representative of India to the European Union.

Notes edit

  1. ^ Indian ambassador to Ethiopia also serves as the permanent representative of India to   African Union
  2. ^ Along with Chad
  3. ^ additional charge
  4. ^ additional charge with Madagascar
  5. ^ additional charge with Nicaragua and Panama
  6. ^ additional charge with Colombia
  7. ^ additional charge along with Democratic Republic of the Congo
  8. ^ additional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde
  9. ^ additional charge with Armenia
  10. ^ additional charge on 22 October 2019
  11. ^ additional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Manpreet Vohra appointed India's High Commissioner to Australia". The Hindu. 1 March 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami appointed India's next envoy to Bangladesh". Hindustan Times. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Santosh Jha appointed as next Ambassador of India to Belgium". ANI News. ANI News. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Ajay Bisaria appointed India's next High Commissioner to Canada | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Shri Subrata Bhattacharjee appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Chile". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  9. ^ "New Indian High Commissioner to Guyana accredited". Stabroek News. 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  10. ^ "Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Pradip Kumar Yadav appointed as next ambassador of India to Liberia". ANI News. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Naveen Srivastava appointed as India's ambassador to Nepal". BusinessToday.In. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Shri Shambhu S. Kumaran has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Philippines". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  14. ^ "Shri Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". www.mea.gov.in. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  15. ^ ANI (2023-01-17). "Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  16. ^ "Periasamy Kumaran takes over as the High Commissioner of India to Singapore". www.connectedtoindia.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  17. ^ "Gopal Baglay appointed Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. PTI. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  18. ^ "india-appoints-new-ambassador-to-the-uae". gulfnews. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  19. ^ "Gaitri Issar Kumar takes over as Indian high commissioner to the UK". Hindustan Times. 5 July 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  20. ^ "Taranjit Singh Sandhu appointed India's Ambassador to US". The Hindu. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  21. ^ "Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 10 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  22. ^ "verma-named-indias-next-ambassador-to-vietnam". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  23. ^ "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  24. ^ "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  25. ^ "Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  26. ^ "Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill". meaindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  27. ^ "Shri Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Belgium". www.mea.gov.in. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  28. ^ "Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India's Permanent Representative to United Nations". ThePrint. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  29. ^ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  30. ^ Geneva, United Nations Office of. "Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva". www.unog.ch. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  31. ^ "Shri Vishal V. Sharma has been appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO, Paris". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  32. ^ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  33. ^ "Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat". Hindustan Times. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

External links edit

  • List of Indian diplomatic missions - Ministry of External Affairs
  • List of Indian Ambassadors to Foreign Countries

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