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List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India


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 commissionersEdit

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Ambassadors and High CommissionersEdit

Host Country List Ambassador/High Commissioner Took office Websites Refs
  Afghanistan Rudrendra Tandon September 2020 EOI, Kabul
  Algeria Gaurav Ahluwalia August 2020 EOI, ALgiers
  Angola List Pratibha Parkar December 2020 EOI, Angola
  Argentina Dinesh Bhatia August 2019 EOI, Buenos Aires
  Armenia Kishan Dan Dewal August 2019 EOI, Yerevan
  Australia Manpreet Vohra 1 March 2021 HCI, Canberra [1]
  Austria Jaideep Mazumdar 2019 EOI, Vienna
  Azerbaijan B. Vanlalvawna 28 December 2018 EOI, Baku
  Bahrain Piyush Srivastava February 2020 EOI, Baharain
  Bangladesh List Vikram Doraiswami 12 August 2020 HCI, Dhaka [2]
  Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha 18 May 2021 EOI, Minsk [3]
  Belgium Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 Official Website [4]
  Bhutan List Ruchira Kamboj April 2019 EOI, Thimpu
  Bosnia and Herzegovina Kumar Tuhin 14 May 2019 EOI, Hungary and Bosnia & Herzegovina
  Botswana Rajesh Ranjan July 2017 HCI, Gaborone
  Brazil Suresh Reddy September 2020 EOI, Brasilia
  Brunei Darussalam Ajaneesh Kumar 15 January 2019 HCI, Brunei
  Bulgaria Sanjay Rana 10 February 2021 EOI, Sofia
  Burkina Faso Vijay Singh Chahuhan 24 March 2019 EOI, Ougadougou
  Cambodia Devyani Uttam Khobragade September 2020 EOI, Phonm Penh
  Cameroon Rakesh Malhotra HCI, Yaounde
  Canada List Ajay Bisaria 1 March 2020 HCI, Ottowa [5]
  Chile Subrata Bhattacharjee 28 May 2021 EOI, Santiago [6]
  China List Vikram Misri 7 January 2019 EOI, Beijing
  Colombia Sanjiv Ranjan 1 September 2019 EOI, Bogota
Template:Country data DR Congo Ram Karan Verma 18 November 2020 EOI, Kinshasa
  Congo, Republic of Ghotu Ram Meena 8 August 2019 EOI, Brazzavile
Template:Country data Cote D'Ivoire Sailas Thangal September 2018 EOI, Abidjaan
  Croatia Rajkumar Shrivastava 12 June 2020 EOI, Zagreb
  Cuba Madhu Sethi 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 Radha Venkatraman 13 August 2019 HCI, Mbabane
  Eritrea Subhash Chand May 2019
  Ethiopia[lower-alpha 1] Robert Shetkintong October 2020 EOI, Addis Ababa
  Fiji P. S. Karthigeyan 8 July 2021 HCI, Suva
  Finland Raveesh Kumar 17 July 2020 EOI, Helsinki
  France List Jawed Ashraf 13 July 2020 EOI, Paris [7]
  Germany List Mukta Dutta Tomar[8] EOI, Berlin
  Ghana C Sugandha Rajaram 6 December 2019 HCI, Accra
  Greece List Amrit Lugun 3 October 2019 EOI, Athens
  Guatemala B.S. Mubarak December 2018 EOI, Guatemala
  Guinea T. C. Barupal
  Guyana K J Srinivasa[9] 14 August 2019 HCI, Georgetown
  Honduras B. S. Mubarak 1 February 2019
  Hungary Kumar Tuhin November 2018
  Iceland B. Shyam 31 July 2021 EOI, Reykjavik [10]
  Indonesia Manoj Kumar Bharti
  Iran Gaddam Dharmendra
  Iraq Prashant Pise August 2021
  Ireland Akhilesh Mishra 5 August 2021 EOI, Dublin
  Israel Sanjeev Singla
  Italy Reenat Sandhu July 2017
  Jamaica R. Masakui
  Japan Sanjay Kumar Verma
  Jordan Anwar Haleem
  Kazakhstan Subhadarshini Tripthi 10 February 2021
  Kenya List Virander Kumar Paul
  North Korea Atul M. Gotsurve
  Korea Sripriya Ranganathan
  Kuwait Sibi George 4 August 2020
  Kyrgyzstan L. Savithri
  Lebanon Suhel Ajaz Khan
  Lesotho Jaideep Sarkar 5 September 2019
  Liberia Pradip Kumar Yadav 24 May 2021 [ EOI, Monoriva] [11]
  Libya Vacant
  Madagascar List Abhay Kumar January 2019
  Malawi S. Gopalakrishnan
  Malaysia B. Nagabhushana Reddy 10 August 2021 HCI, Kuala Lumpur
  Maldives Munu Mahawar (Ambassador-designate) October, 2021 Official Website
  Mali Anjani Kumar 7 November 2019
  Malta Sangeeta Bahadur 10 February 2021
  Mauritius K. Nandini Singla
  Mexico (with   Niue,   Samoa) Vacant
  Mongolia Dr. T. Suresh Babu
  Morocco Rajesh Vaishnaw
  Mozambique Ankan Banerjee 10 February 2021
  Myanmar Saurabh Kumar
  Namibia Prashant Aggarwal
    Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwarta 30 January 2020[12]
  Netherlands Pradeep Kumar Rawat
  New Zealand Muktesh Kumar Pardesi May 2019
  Niger Rajesh Agrawal
  Nigeria[lower-alpha 2] Abhay Thakur[13] 1 March 2019
  Norway B. Bala Bhaskar September 2019
  Oman Munu Mahawar 21 August 2018
  Pakistan List Vacant

Dr. M. Suresh Kumar,

Deputy High Commissioner

(Chargé d’Affaires a.i.)

  Papua New Guinea Dr. A.M. Gondane
  Peru Krishna R Urs
  Philippines Shambhu S. Kumaran [14] 10 June 2020
  Poland Nagma Mohammad Mallick 9 July 2021 EOI, Warshaw
  Portugal K. Nandini Singla
  Qatar Deepak Mittal 29 April 2020 EOi, Doha
  Romania Rahul Shrivastava 5 June 2020 Official Website [15]
  Russia List Pawan Kapoor
  Saudi Arabia List Ausaf Sayeed[16] 8 March 2019
  Senegal G. V. Srinivas August, 2019
  Serbia Sanjiv Kohli 3 June 2021 EOI, Belgrade [17]
  Seychelles Dalbir Singh Suhag[18] 25 April 2019
  Singapore P Kumaran 29 July 2020 [19]
Template:Country data Slovak Republic Param Jit Mann
  Slovenia Sarvajit Chakravarti
  South Africa Jaideep Sarkar April 2019
  Sudan Ravindra Jaiswal
  Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay 1 February 2020 hcicolombo.gov.in [20]
  Sudan Mr. Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal
  Suriname Mahender Singh Kanyal
  Sweden &   Latvia Tanmaya Lal
   Switzerland &   Liechtenstein Monika Kapil Mohta August 2020
  Tajikistan Somnath Ghosh
  Tanzania List Binaya Shrikanta Praadhaan 20 July 2021 Dar Es Salaam
  Thailand Suchitra Durai
  Trinidad and Tobago (with   Grenada) Arun Kumar Sahu 22 October 2019[lower-alpha 3]
  Tunisia N. J. Gangte
  Turkey Sanjay Kumar Panda 3 March 2020
  Turkmenistan Dr. Vidhu P. Nair
  Ukraine Manoj Kumar Bharti
  United Arab Emirates List Pavan Kapoor [21] 28 August 2019
  United Kingdom List Gaitri Issar Kumar 3 June 2020 Official Website [22]
  United States List Taranjit Singh Sandhu[23] 28 January 2020
  Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat[24] 10 August 2020
  Venezuela Abhishek Singh 2016
  Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma[25] 1 March 2019
  Yemen Vacant
  Zambia Vacant
  Zimbabwe Vijay Khanduja Official Website

Honorary ConsulsEdit

Host Country High Commissioner Took office Refs
  Albania
  Moldova		 Rahul Shrivastava 13 October 2020
13 August 2020		 [lower-alpha 4]
  Aruba
  Barbados
  Belize
  Benin
  Bolivia
  Central African Republic Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo
  Chad Abhay Thakur [13]
  Comoros Abhay Kumar 28 May 2019 [lower-alpha 5]
  Costa Rica Upendra Singh Rawat 3 December 2019 [lower-alpha 6]
  Dominican Republic
  Estonia Radha Venkataraman 17 May 2019
  Ecuador Sanjiv Ranjan[lower-alpha 7] 2 September 2019
  El Salvador
  Gabon Nina Tshering La [lower-alpha 8][26]
  Gambia G. V Srinivas 24 October 2019 [lower-alpha 9]
  Georgia Kishan Dan Dewal[lower-alpha 10] 11 October 2019
  Guinea (with   Cape Verde) G. V Srinivas 23 September 2019 [lower-alpha 11]
  Haiti
  Honduras
  Liberia Y. K. Sailas Thangal
  Lithuania
  Luxembourg
  Mauritania
  Montenegro Jaideep Mazumdar [27]
Template:Country data Netherlands Antilles
  Nicaragua (with   Panama) Upendra Singh Rawat 18 October 2019 [lower-alpha 12]
  North Macedonia
  Paraguay High Commissioner of Argentina
Template:Country data Réunion
  Saint Kitts and Nevis
  Saint Lucia
  Sierra Leone
  Togo M. S. Padmaja 13 November 2019

Permanent representatives to international organizationsEdit

Host organization Location Permanent Representatives and Deputy Representatives Took office Ref.
Conference on Disarmament Geneva Pankaj Sharma 11 November 2018 [28]
  European Union[EU] Brussels Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 [29]
  United Nations New York City T. S. Tirumurti (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) April 2020 [30]
Geneva Indramani Pandey October 2020 [31][32]
Template:Country data UNESCO Paris Vishal V. Sharma October 2020 [33]
Template:Country data World Trade Organisation Geneva Brajendra Navneet 29 June, 2021 [34]
  ASEAN Jakarta Jayant N. Khobragade 20 January 2021 [35]
  African Union[AU] Addis Ababa Robert Shetkintong March 2020
Template:Country data IAEA Geneva Jaideep Mazumdar June 2020
  • 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 African Union.
  • EU – Indian Ambassador appointed to Kingdom of Belgium, with office in Brussels, is also concurrently accredited as the Permanent Representative of India to European Union.

NotesEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

  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. ↑ "mukta-tomar-appointed-next-ambassador-to-germany". 2017-04-07.
  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. ↑ "Vinay Mohan Kwatra Appointed India's Next Envoy to Nepal". News18.com. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  14. ↑ "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.
  15. ↑ "Shri Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". www.mea.gov.in. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  16. ↑ "Ausaf Sayeed appointed new Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia". newsonair. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  17. ↑ "Shri Sanjiv Kohli appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Serbia". fsi.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  18. ↑ "Ex-army chief Dalbir Singh Suhag appointed India high commissioner to Seychelles". livemint. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  19. ↑ "Periasamy Kumaran takes over as the High Commissioner of India to Singapore". www.connectedtoindia.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  20. ↑ "Gopal Baglay appointed Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. PTI. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  21. ↑ "india-appoints-new-ambassador-to-the-uae". gulfnews. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  22. ↑ "Gaitri Issar Kumar takes over as Indian high commissioner to the UK". Hindustan Times. 5 July 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  23. ↑ "Taranjit Singh Sandhu appointed India's Ambassador to US". The Hindu. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  24. ↑ "Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 10 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  25. ↑ "verma-named-indias-next-ambassador-to-vietnam". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  26. ↑ "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  27. ↑ "Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  28. ↑ "Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill". meaindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  29. ↑ "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.
  30. ↑ "India's New UN Envoy Meets His Pakistani Counterpart". ndtv.com. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  31. ↑ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  32. ↑ 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.
  33. ↑ "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.
  34. ↑ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  35. ↑ "Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat". Hindustan Times. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

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