List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India explained

This is a list of currently serving ambassadors, high commissioners and permanent representatives of India. High commissioners lead India's diplomatic missions in member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and ambassadors lead diplomatic missions in other states. The head of a diplomatic mission to an international organization is called a permanent representative. All ambassadors, high commissioners and permanent representatives of India are appointed by the Ministry of External Affairs and are almost always career diplomats and members of the Indian Foreign Service.

Current ambassadors and high commissioners

Host country List Ambassador/High Commissioner Appointed Websites Refs
Vacant since August 2021EOI, Kabul
Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal2024 09 13
Dr. Swati Vijay Kulkarni 2024 09EOI, Algiers [1]
ListDr. Vidhu P Nair 2024 01EOI, Angola [2]
Dinesh Bhatia 2019 02 01EOI, Buenos Aires [3]
Nilakshi Saha Sinha 2023 01 17EOI, Yerevan [4]
2023 09 13HCI, Canberra [5] [6]
Shambu S. Kumaran 2024 02EOI, Vienna
Garima Thakuri Pokhriyal2023 05EOI, Baku
Vinod K Jacob 2023 08EOI, Bahrain
Pranay Kumar Verma 2022 07HCI, Dhaka
Alok Ranjan Jha 2021 05 18EOI, Minsk [7]
Saurabh Kumar 2023 11EOI, Brussels
ListSudhakar Dalela 2022 08EOI, Thimpu
Rohitkumar R. Vadhwana2024 09
Bharath Kumar Kuthati 2023 07HCI, Gaborone
Suresh Reddy2020 09EOI, Brasilia
Alok Amitabh Dimri 2022 03HCI, Brunei
Sanjay Rana 2021 03 EOI, Sofia
Bhaskar Bhatt 2023 09EOI, Ouagadougou
Devyani Khobragade2020 09EOI, Phonm Penh
VacantManoj Kumar Sinha, chargé d'affairesHCI, Yaounde
2022 06HCI, Ottawa
Abhilasha Joshi 2024 03EOI, Santiago
ListPradeep Kumar Rawat2021 12EOI, Beijing
Vanlalhuma 2022 09EOI, Bogota
V. Venkataraman 2024 09EOI, Kinshasa
Madan Lal Raigar 2023 09EOI, Brazzavile
Rajesh Ranjan 2022 11EOI, Abidjaan
Arun Goel 2024 09EOI, Zagreb
T. Armstrong Changsan 2024 03EOI, Havana
Manish 2024 05HCI, Nicosia
Hemant H. Kotalwar 2020 09EOI, Prague
Manish Prabhat 2024 04EOI, Copenhegen
Ramachandran Chandramouli 2021 06EOI, Djibouti
Ajit Gupte 2021 02EOI, Cairo
Prashant Kumar Das 2023 07EOI, Malabo
Ajaneesh Kumar 2021 11EOI, Tallinn
N Ram Prasad 2023 08HCI, Mbabane
Prakash Chand2023 01HCI, Asmara
EthiopiaAnil Kumar Rai 2024 02EOI, Addis Ababa
P. S. Karthigeyan 2021 07HCI, Suva
Raveesh Kumar2020 07EOI, Helsinki
ListJawed Ashraf 2020 07EOI, Paris[8]
ListVacantEOI, Berlin[9]
Manish Gupta 2023 07HCI, Accra
ListRudrendra Tandon2023 03EOI, Athens
Manoj Kumar Mohapatra2021 12EOI, Guatemala
Avtar Singh2023 01EOI, Conakry
Amit Telang2023 09HCI, Georgetown
Partha Sathpathy2021 11EOI, Budapest
B. Shyam 2021 07EOI, Reykjavik [10]
Sandeep Chakravorty 2023 08EOI, Jakarta
Rudra Gaurav Shreshth 2023 05EOI, Tehran
Prashant Pise2021 08EOI, Baghdad
Akhilesh Mishra 2021 08EOI, Dublin
ListSanjeev Singla2019 10EOI, Tel Aviv
Vani Rao2024 04EOI, Rome
R. Masakui2020 09HCI, Kingston
Sibi George2022 09EOI, Tokyo
Anwar Haleem 2019 08EOI, Amman
Nagendra Prasad 2023 06EOI, Astana
ListMs. Namgya Khampa Namgya C. Khampa2023 07HCI, Nairobi
Vacant
Amit Kumar 2022 09EOI, Seoul
Adarsh Swaika2022 10EOI, Kuwait
A. K. Chatterjee2022 08EOI, Bishkek
Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh2023 06EOI, Beirut
Vacant EOI, Monrovia
Ngulkham Jathom Gangte 2021 10
Devesh Uttam2023 07EOI, Vilnius
ListB Wilson Babu 2022 11EOI, Antanarivo
S. Gopalakrishnan2021 01HCI, Lilongwe
B. Nagabhushana Reddy 2021 08HCI, Kuala Lumpur
Munu Mahawar 2021 10 HCI, Male
Anjani Kumar 2019 11 EOI, Bamako
Gloria Gangte2021 02HCI, Malta
K. Nandini Singla2020 10HCI, Port Louis
Pankaj Sharma2022 02EOI, Mexico City
Atul Malhari Gotsurve2024 03EOI, Ulaanbaatar
Sanjay Rana2024 09EOI, Rabat
Robert Shetkintong 2023 11HCI, Maputo
Abhay Thakur 2024 04EOI, Yangon
M Subbarayudu2023 03HCI, Windhoek
Naveen Srivastava2022 05EOI, Kathmandu
Mrs. Reenat Sandhu2022 02EOI, Hague
Neeta Bhushan2022 09HCI, Wellington
VacantEOI, Niamey
G Balasubramaniam2019 03HCI, Abuja
Acquino Vimal 2023 05EOI, Oslo
Amit Narang2021 10EOI, Muscat
ListVacant since August 2019 Geetika Srivastava, chargé d'affairesHCI, Islamabad
Inbasekar Sundaramurthy2021 06HCI, Port Moresby
Yogeshwar Sangwan2022 02EOI, Asuncion
Vishvas Vidu Sapkal2022 07EOI, Lima
Harsh Kumar Jain2024 05EOI, Manila
Nagma Mohammad Mallick 2021 07EOI, Warsaw
Manish Chauhan2021 01EOI, Lisbon
Vipul 2023 08EOI, Doha
Rahul Shrivastava 2020 07
ListVinay Kumar2024 03EOI, Moscow
Suhel Ajaz Khan[11] 2023 01EOI, Riyadh
Dinkar Asthana2022 08EOI, Dakar
Shubhdarshini Tripathi 2023 09EOI, Belgrade
Kartik Pande2022 11HCI, Victoria-Mahe
Shilpak Ambule2023 06HCI, Singapore
Apoorva Srivastava2022 10 EOI, Bratislava
Namrata S Kumar2020 08EOI, Ljubljana
Prabhat Kumar 2023 08HCI, Pretoria
SpainDinesh K. Patnaik2021 11
Santosh Jha2023 12 HCI, Colombo
VacantEOI, Khartoum
Subhash Prasad Gupta2024 07EOI, Paramaribo
VacantEOI, Stockholm
ListMridul Kumar2023 06EOI, Berne
Rajesh Uike2024 03EOI, Dushanbe
ListVacant HCI, Dar Es Salaam
Nagesh Singh 2022 08EOI, Bangkok
Pradeep Rajpurohit2023 10HCI, Port of Spain
Ngulkham Jathom Gangte2021 08EOI, Tunis
VacantEOI, Ankara
Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 2024 01EOI, Ashgabat
Ravi Shankar2024 05EOI, Kyiv
ListSunjay Sudhir2021 11EOI, Abu Dhabi
ListVikram Doraiswami2022 09HCI, London
ListVinay Mohan Kwatra2024 07EOI, Washington, D.C.
Manish Prabhat[12] 2020 08EOI, Tashkent
Ashok Babu2023 11EOI, Caracas
Sandeep Arya2022 10EOI, Hanoi
Suhel Ajaz Khan2024 06EOI, Sana'a
Ashok Kumar2021 06HCI, Lusaka
Vijay Khanduja 2020 11EOI, Harare

Honorary consuls

Host country High Commissioner / Ambassador Refs
concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest.
Amit Telang
Shamim Aktar
T. N. Mayyas
Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo
Abhay Thakur[13]
28 May 2019
Upendra Singh Rawat 3 December 2019-12-03
Radha Venkataraman 17 May 2019
Sanjiv Ranjan 2019 09 02
Nina Tshering La [14]
G. V. Srinivas 2019 10 24
Kishan Dan Dewal 2019 10 11
Guinea (with Cape Verde)G. V. Srinivas 2019 09 23
Y. K. Sailas Thangal
Jaideep Mazumdar [15]
(with Panama) Upendra Singh Rawat2019 10 18
Amit Telang
Junior Bacchus
M. S. Padmaja 2019 11 13

Permanent representatives to international organizations

Host organizationLocationPermanent Representatives and Deputy RepresentativesTook officeRef.
Conference on DisarmamentGenevaShamim Aktar11 November 2018[16]
Amit Telang December 2023
Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 [17]
New York CityParvathaneni Harish (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations)September 2024[18]
GenevaARINDAM BAGCHI FROM 5TH JANUARY[19] [20]
ParisVishal V. SharmaOctober 2020[21]
GenevaBrajendra Navneet29 June, 2021[22]
JakartaJayant N. Khobragade20 January 2021[23]
Robert Shetkintong March 2020
ViennaMalina PaulJan 2022

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: September 13, 2024 . Dr. Swati Vijay Kulkarni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria . Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
  2. News: January 11, 2024 . Dr. Vidhu P. Nair appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Angola . Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
  3. News: February 1, 2019 . Dinesh Bhatia appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Argentina . Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
  4. News: January 17, 2023 . Ms. Nilakshi Saha Sinha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Armenia . Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
  5. News: September 13, 2023 . Shri Gopal Baglay appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia . Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
  6. News: June 23, 2024 . Shri Gopal Baglay concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Nauru . Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
  7. News: May 18, 2021 . Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus . Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
  8. News: Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France . 13 March 2021 . Hindustan Times . 14 January 2020 . en.
  9. News: Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany . 16 December 2021 . www.mea.gov.in.
  10. News: Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland . 12 June 2021 . mea.gov.in.
  11. Web site: ANI . 2023-01-17 . Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia . 2023-01-30 . ThePrint . en-US.
  12. Web site: Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan. 17 August 2010. 10 August 2020.
  13. News: Mr.Takur designated additional charge. ani. 4 March 2019.
  14. News: Mr.La given the additional changes. ani. 4 March 2019.
  15. Web site: Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro. 2020-07-28. www.mea.gov.in.
  16. Web site: Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill. meaindia.nic.in. en. 2017-03-12.
  17. News: Shri Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Belgium . 23 September 2021 . www.mea.gov.in . 15 June 2020.
  18. News: Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India's Permanent Representative to United Nations . 2 July 2022 . ThePrint . 21 June 2022.
  19. Web site: Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva. www.pmindiaun.org. en. 2017-03-12.
  20. Web site: Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. Geneva. United Nations Office of. www.unog.ch. en. 2017-03-12.
  21. News: Shri Vishal V. Sharma has been appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO, Paris . 7 January 2021 . mea.gov.in.
  22. Web site: Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva. www.pmindiaun.org. en. 2017-03-12.
  23. News: Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat . 2 February 2021 . Hindustan Times . 21 January 2021 . en.

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