List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India explained
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
Ambassadors and high commissioners
Host country | List | Ambassador/High Commissioner | Took office | Websites | Refs |
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| | Rudendra Tandon | 2022 June | EOI, Kabul | |
| | Gaurav Ahluwalia | 2020 August | EOI, Algiers | |
| List | Vidhu P Nair | 2024 February | EOI, Angola | |
| | Dinesh Bhatia | 2019 August | EOI, Buenos Aires | |
| | Nilakshi Saha Sinha | 2023 March | EOI, Yerevan | |
| | | 2024 January | HCI, Canberra | |
| | Shambu S Kumaran | 2024 February | EOI, Vienna | |
| | Sridharan Madhusudan | 2023 May | EOI, Baku | |
| | Vinod K Jacob | 2023 August | EOI, Bahrain | |
| | Pranay Verma | 2022 September | HCI, Dhaka | |
| | Alok Ranjan Jha | 2021 May | EOI, Minsk | [1] |
| | Saurabh Kumar | 2023 November | EOI, Brussels | |
| List | Sudhakar Dalela | 2019 April | EOI, Thimpu | |
| | Bharath Kumar Kuthati | 2023 July | HCI, Gaborone | |
| | Suresh Reddy | 2020 September | EOI, Brasilia | |
| | Alok Amitabh Dimri | 2022 March | HCI, Brunei | |
| | Sanjay Rana | 2021 February | EOI, Sofia | |
| | Bhaskar Bhatt | 2023 September | EOI, Ouagadougou | |
| | Devyani Khobragade | 2020 September | EOI, Phonm Penh | |
| | VACANT (C'dA - Manoj Kumar Sinha) | | HCI, Yaounde | |
| | Sanjay Kumar Verma | 2022 June | HCI, Ottawa | |
| | Abhilasha Joshi | 2024 March | EOI, Santiago | |
| List | Pradeep Kumar Rawat | 2019 January | EOI, Beijing | |
| | Vanlalhuma | 2022 November | EOI, Bogota | |
| | VACANT | | EOI, Kinshasa | |
| | Madan Lal Raigar | 2023 October | EOI, Brazzavile | |
| | Rajesh Ranjan | 2023 January | EOI, Abidjaan | |
| | Rajkumar Shrivastava | 2020 June | EOI, Zagreb | |
| | T. Armstrong Changsan | 2024 March | EOI, Havana | |
| | Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat | 2019 November | HCI, Nicosia | |
| | Hemant H. Kotalwar | 2020 September | EOI, Prague | |
| | Manish Prabhat | 2024 April | EOI, Copenhegen | |
| | Ramachandran Chandramouli | 2021 June | EOI, Djibouti | |
| | Ajit Vinayak Gupte | 2021February | EOI, Cairo | |
| | VACANT | | EOI, Malabo | |
| | Ajaneesh Kumar | 2021 November | EOI, Tallinn | |
| | N Ram Prasad | 2023 August | HCI, Mbabane | |
| | Prakash Chand | 2023 January | HCI, Asmara | |
Ethiopia | | Anil Kumar Rai | 2024 February | EOI, Addis Ababa | |
| | P. S. Karthigeyan | 2021 July | HCI, Suva | |
| | Raveesh Kumar | 2020 July | EOI, Helsinki | |
| List | Jawed Ashraf | 2020 July | EOI, Paris | [2] |
| List | Parvathaneni Harish | 2021 November | EOI, Berlin | [3] |
| | Manish Gupta | 2023 July | HCI, Accra | |
| List | Rudrendra Tandon | 2019 October | EOI, Athens | |
| | Manoj Kumar Mohapatra | 2021 December | EOI, Guatemala | |
| | Avtar Singh | 2023 January | EOI, Conakry | |
| | Amit Telang | 2023 September | HCI, Georgetown | |
| | Partha Sathpathy | 2021 November | EOI, Budapest | |
| | B. Shyam | 2021 July | EOI, Reykjavik | [4] |
| | Sandeep Chakravorty | 2023 August | EOI, Jakarta | |
| | Rudra Gaurav Shreshth | 2023 May | EOI, Tehran | |
| | Prashant Pise | 2021 August | EOI, Baghdad | |
| | Akhilesh Mishra | 2021 August | EOI, Dublin | |
| List | Sanjeev Singla | 2019 October | EOI, Tel Aviv | |
| | Vani Rao | 2024 April | EOI, Rome | |
| | R. Masakui | 2020 September | HCI, Kingston | |
| | Sibi George | 2022 September | EOI, Tokyo | |
| | Anwar Haleem | 2019 August | EOI, Amman | |
| | Nagendra Prasad | 2023 June | EOI, Astana | |
| List | Ms. Namgya Khampa | Namgya C. Khampa | 2023 July | HCI, Nairobi | |
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| | Amit Kumar | 2022 September | EOI, Seoul | |
| | Adarsh Swaika | 2022 October | EOI, Kuwait | |
| | A. K. Chatterjee | 2022 August | EOI, Bishkek | |
| | Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh | 2023 June | EOI, Beirut | |
| | VACANT | | EOI, Monrovia | |
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| | Devesh Uttam | 2023 July | EOI, Vilnius | |
| List | B Wilson Babu | 2022 November | EOI, Antanarivo | |
| | S. Gopalakrishnan | 2021 January | HCI, Lilongwe | |
| | B. Nagabhushana Reddy | 2021 August | HCI, Kuala Lumpur | |
| | Munu Mahawar | 2021 October | HCI, Male | |
| | Anjani Kumar | 2019 November | EOI, Bamako | |
| | Gloria Gangte | 2021 February | HCI, Malta | |
| | K. Nandini Singla | 2020 October | HCI, Port Louis | |
| | Pankaj Sharma | 2022 February | EOI, Mexico City | |
| | Atul Malhari Gotsurve | 2024 March | EOI, Ulaanbaatar | |
| | Rajesh Vaishnaw | 2021 March | EOI, Rabat | |
| | Robert Shetkintong | 2023 November | HCI, Maputo | |
| | Abhay Thakur | 2024 April | EOI, Yangon | |
| | M Subbarayudu | 2023 March | HCI, Windhoek | |
| | Naveen Srivastava | 2022 May | EOI, Kathmandu | |
| | Mrs. Reenat Sandhu | 2022 February | EOI, Hague | |
| | Neeta Bhushan | 2022 September | HCI, Wellington | |
| | VACANT | | EOI, Niamey | |
| | G Balasubramaniam | 2019 March | HCI, Abuja | |
| | Acquino Vimal | 2023 May | EOI, Oslo | |
| | Amit Narang | 2021 October | EOI, Muscat | |
| List | VACANT | | HCI, Islamabad | |
| | Inbasekar Sundaramurthy | 2021 June | HCI, Port Moresby | |
| | Yogeshwar Sangwan | 2022 February | EOI, Asuncion | |
| | Vishwas Vidu Sapkal | 2023 June | EOI, Lima | |
| | VACANT | | EOI, Manila | |
| | Nagma Mohammad Mallick | 2021 July | EOI, Warsaw | |
| | Manish Chauhan | 2021 January | EOI, Lisbon | |
| | Vipul | 2023 August | EOI, Doha | |
| | Rahul Shrivastava | 2020 July | EOI, Bucharest | [5] |
| List | Vinay Kumar | 2024 March | EOI, Moscow | |
| | Suhel Ajaz Khan[6] | 2023 January | EOI, Riyadh | |
| | Dinkar Asthana | 2022 August | EOI, Dakar | |
| | Shubhdarshini Tripathi | 2023 September | EOI, Belgrade | |
| | Kartik Pande | 2022 November | HCI, Victoria-Mahe | |
| | Shilpak Ambule | 2023 June | HCI, Singapore | |
| | Apoorva Srivastava | 2022 October | EOI, Bratislava | |
| | Namrata S Kumar | 2020 August | EOI, Ljubljana | |
| | Prabhat Kumar | 2023 August | HCI, Pretoria | |
| | Santosh Jha | 2023 December | HCI, Colombo | |
| | VACANT | | EOI, Khartoum | |
| | Shankar Balachandran | 2021 August | EOI, Paramaribo | |
| | Tanmaya Lal | 2020 December | EOI, Stockholm | |
| List | Mridul Kumar | 2023 June | EOI, Berne | |
| | Rajesh Uike | 2024 March | EOI, Dushanbe | |
| List | VACANT | | HCI, Dar Es Salaam | |
| | Nagesh Singh | 2022 August | EOI, Bangkok | |
| | Pradeep Rajpurohit | 2023 October | HCI, Port of Spain | |
| | N. J. Gangte | 2021 August | EOI, Tunis | |
| | VACANT | | EOI, Ankara |
| | Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat | 2024 January | EOI, Ashgabat | |
| | Harsh Kumar Jain | 2022 April | EOI, Kyiv | |
| List | Sunjay Sudhir | 2021 November | EOI, Abu Dhabi | |
| List | Vikram Doraiswami | 2022 September | HCI, London | |
| List | Vinay Mohan Kwatra | 2024 July | EOI, Washington, D.C. | |
| | Manish Prabhat[7] | 2020 August | EOI, Tashkent | |
| | Ashok Babu | 2023 November | EOI, Caracas | |
| | Sandeep Arya | 2022 October | EOI, Hanoi | |
| | VACANT | | EOI, Sana'a | |
| | Ashok Kumar | 2021 June | HCI, Lusaka | |
| | Vijay Khanduja | 2020 November | EOI, Harare | |
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Honorary consuls
Host country | High Commissioner / Ambassador | Refs |
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Albania | concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest. |
| Amit Telang | |
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| Shamim Aktar | |
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| T. N. Mayyas | |
| Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo | |
| Abhay Thakur | [8] |
| | 28 May 2019 |
| Upendra Singh Rawat | 3 December 2019 |
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| Radha Venkataraman | 17 May 2019 |
| Sanjiv Ranjan | 2 September 2019 |
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| Nina Tshering La | [9] |
| G. V. Srinivas | 24 October 2019 |
| Kishan Dan Dewal | 11 October 2019 |
Guinea (with Cape Verde) | G. V. Srinivas | 23 September 2019 |
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| Y. K. Sailas Thangal | |
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| Jaideep Mazumdar [10] | |
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(with Panama) | Upendra Singh Rawat | 18 October 2019 |
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| Amit Telang | |
| Junior Bacchus | |
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| M. S. Padmaja | 13 November 2019 |
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Permanent representatives to international organizations
- – 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.
- – 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.
See also
External links
Notes and References
- News: Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus . 26 May 2021 . mea.gov.in.
- News: Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France . 13 March 2021 . Hindustan Times . 14 January 2020 . en.
- News: Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany . 16 December 2021 . www.mea.gov.in.
- News: Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland . 12 June 2021 . mea.gov.in.
- News: Shri Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania . 17 August 2020 . www.mea.gov.in . 5 June 2020.
- Web site: ANI . 2023-01-17 . Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia . 2023-01-30 . ThePrint . en-US.
- Web site: Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan. 17 August 2010. 10 August 2020.
- News: Mr.Takur designated additional charge. ani. 4 March 2019.
- News: Mr.La given the additional changes. ani. 4 March 2019.
- Web site: Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro. 2020-07-28. www.mea.gov.in.
- Web site: Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill. meaindia.nic.in. en. 2017-03-12.
- 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.
- News: Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India’s Permanent Representative to United Nations . 2 July 2022 . ThePrint . 21 June 2022.
- Web site: Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva. www.pmindiaun.org. en. 2017-03-12.
- 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.
- 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.
- Web site: Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva. www.pmindiaun.org. en. 2017-03-12.
- News: Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat . 2 February 2021 . Hindustan Times . 21 January 2021 . en.