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
Rudendra Tandon 2022 JuneEOI, Kabul
Gaurav Ahluwalia 2020 AugustEOI, Algiers
ListVidhu P Nair 2024 FebruaryEOI, Angola
Dinesh Bhatia 2019 AugustEOI, Buenos Aires
Nilakshi Saha Sinha 2023 MarchEOI, Yerevan
2024 JanuaryHCI, Canberra
Shambu S Kumaran 2024 FebruaryEOI, Vienna
Sridharan Madhusudan 2023 MayEOI, Baku
Vinod K Jacob 2023 AugustEOI, Bahrain
Pranay Verma 2022 SeptemberHCI, Dhaka
Alok Ranjan Jha 2021 MayEOI, Minsk [1]
Saurabh Kumar 2023 NovemberEOI, Brussels
ListSudhakar Dalela 2019 AprilEOI, Thimpu
Bharath Kumar Kuthati 2023 July HCI, Gaborone
Suresh Reddy2020 SeptemberEOI, Brasilia
Alok Amitabh Dimri 2022 March HCI, Brunei
Sanjay Rana 2021 February EOI, Sofia
Bhaskar Bhatt 2023 SeptemberEOI, Ouagadougou
Devyani Khobragade2020 SeptemberEOI, Phonm Penh
VACANT (C'dA - Manoj Kumar Sinha) HCI, Yaounde
Sanjay Kumar Verma 2022 June HCI, Ottawa
Abhilasha Joshi 2024 MarchEOI, Santiago
ListPradeep Kumar Rawat2019 JanuaryEOI, Beijing
Vanlalhuma 2022 NovemberEOI, Bogota
VACANT EOI, Kinshasa
Madan Lal Raigar 2023 OctoberEOI, Brazzavile
Rajesh Ranjan 2023 JanuaryEOI, Abidjaan
Rajkumar Shrivastava 2020 JuneEOI, Zagreb
T. Armstrong Changsan 2024 MarchEOI, Havana
Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 2019 NovemberHCI, Nicosia
Hemant H. Kotalwar 2020 SeptemberEOI, Prague
Manish Prabhat 2024 April EOI, Copenhegen
Ramachandran Chandramouli 2021 JuneEOI, Djibouti
Ajit Vinayak Gupte 2021FebruaryEOI, Cairo
VACANT EOI, Malabo
Ajaneesh Kumar 2021 November EOI, Tallinn
N Ram Prasad 2023 August HCI, Mbabane
Prakash Chand2023 JanuaryHCI, Asmara
EthiopiaAnil Kumar Rai 2024 FebruaryEOI, Addis Ababa
P. S. Karthigeyan 2021 JulyHCI, Suva
Raveesh Kumar2020 JulyEOI, Helsinki
ListJawed Ashraf 2020 JulyEOI, Paris[2]
ListParvathaneni Harish2021 NovemberEOI, Berlin[3]
Manish Gupta 2023 JulyHCI, Accra
ListRudrendra Tandon2019 OctoberEOI, Athens
Manoj Kumar Mohapatra2021 DecemberEOI, Guatemala
Avtar Singh2023 JanuaryEOI, Conakry
Amit Telang2023 SeptemberHCI, Georgetown
Partha Sathpathy2021 NovemberEOI, Budapest
B. Shyam 2021 JulyEOI, Reykjavik [4]
Sandeep Chakravorty 2023 AugustEOI, Jakarta
Rudra Gaurav Shreshth 2023 MayEOI, Tehran
Prashant Pise2021 AugustEOI, Baghdad
Akhilesh Mishra 2021 AugustEOI, Dublin
ListSanjeev Singla2019 OctoberEOI, Tel Aviv
Vani Rao2024 AprilEOI, Rome
R. Masakui2020 SeptemberHCI, Kingston
Sibi George2022 SeptemberEOI, Tokyo
Anwar Haleem 2019 AugustEOI, Amman
Nagendra Prasad 2023 JuneEOI, Astana
ListMs. Namgya Khampa Namgya C. Khampa2023 JulyHCI, Nairobi
VACANT
Amit Kumar 2022 SeptemberEOI, Seoul
Adarsh Swaika2022 OctoberEOI, Kuwait
A. K. Chatterjee2022 AugustEOI, Bishkek
Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh2023 JuneEOI, Beirut
VACANT EOI, Monrovia
VACANT
Devesh Uttam2023 JulyEOI, Vilnius
ListB Wilson Babu 2022 NovemberEOI, Antanarivo
S. Gopalakrishnan2021 JanuaryHCI, Lilongwe
B. Nagabhushana Reddy 2021 AugustHCI, Kuala Lumpur
Munu Mahawar 2021 October HCI, Male
Anjani Kumar 2019 November EOI, Bamako
Gloria Gangte2021 FebruaryHCI, Malta
K. Nandini Singla2020 OctoberHCI, Port Louis
Pankaj Sharma2022 FebruaryEOI, Mexico City
Atul Malhari Gotsurve2024 MarchEOI, Ulaanbaatar
Rajesh Vaishnaw2021 MarchEOI, Rabat
Robert Shetkintong 2023 NovemberHCI, Maputo
Abhay Thakur 2024 AprilEOI, Yangon
M Subbarayudu2023 MarchHCI, Windhoek
Naveen Srivastava2022 MayEOI, Kathmandu
Mrs. Reenat Sandhu2022 FebruaryEOI, Hague
Neeta Bhushan2022 SeptemberHCI, Wellington
VACANTEOI, Niamey
G Balasubramaniam2019 MarchHCI, Abuja
Acquino Vimal 2023 MayEOI, Oslo
Amit Narang2021 OctoberEOI, Muscat
ListVACANTHCI, Islamabad
Inbasekar Sundaramurthy2021 JuneHCI, Port Moresby
Yogeshwar Sangwan2022 FebruaryEOI, Asuncion
Vishwas Vidu Sapkal2023 JuneEOI, Lima
VACANTEOI, Manila
Nagma Mohammad Mallick 2021 JulyEOI, Warsaw
Manish Chauhan2021 JanuaryEOI, Lisbon
Vipul 2023 AugustEOI, Doha
Rahul Shrivastava 2020 July EOI, Bucharest [5]
ListVinay Kumar2024 MarchEOI, Moscow
Suhel Ajaz Khan[6] 2023 JanuaryEOI, Riyadh
Dinkar Asthana2022 AugustEOI, Dakar
Shubhdarshini Tripathi 2023 SeptemberEOI, Belgrade
Kartik Pande2022 NovemberHCI, Victoria-Mahe
Shilpak Ambule2023 JuneHCI, Singapore
Apoorva Srivastava2022 October EOI, Bratislava
Namrata S Kumar2020 AugustEOI, Ljubljana
Prabhat Kumar 2023 AugustHCI, Pretoria
Santosh Jha2023 December HCI, Colombo
VACANTEOI, Khartoum
Shankar Balachandran2021 AugustEOI, Paramaribo
Tanmaya Lal2020 DecemberEOI, Stockholm
ListMridul Kumar2023 JuneEOI, Berne
Rajesh Uike2024 MarchEOI, Dushanbe
ListVACANT HCI, Dar Es Salaam
Nagesh Singh 2022 AugustEOI, Bangkok
Pradeep Rajpurohit2023 OctoberHCI, Port of Spain
N. J. Gangte 2021 AugustEOI, Tunis
VACANTEOI, Ankara
Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 2024 JanuaryEOI, Ashgabat
Harsh Kumar Jain2022 AprilEOI, Kyiv
ListSunjay Sudhir2021 NovemberEOI, Abu Dhabi
ListVikram Doraiswami2022 SeptemberHCI, London
ListVinay Mohan Kwatra2024 JulyEOI, Washington, D.C.
Manish Prabhat[7] 2020 AugustEOI, Tashkent
Ashok Babu2023 NovemberEOI, Caracas
Sandeep Arya2022 OctoberEOI, Hanoi
VACANTEOI, Sana'a
Ashok Kumar2021 JuneHCI, Lusaka
Vijay Khanduja 2020 NovemberEOI, Harare

Honorary consuls

Host country High Commissioner / Ambassador Refs
Albania
concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest.
Amit Telang
Shamim Aktar
T. N. Mayyas
Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo
Abhay Thakur[8]
28 May 2019
Upendra Singh Rawat 3 December 2019
Radha Venkataraman 17 May 2019
Sanjiv Ranjan 2 September 2019
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
Y. K. Sailas Thangal
Jaideep Mazumdar [10]
(with Panama) Upendra Singh Rawat18 October 2019
Amit Telang
Junior Bacchus
M. S. Padmaja 13 November 2019

Permanent representatives to international organizations

Host organizationLocationPermanent Representatives and Deputy RepresentativesTook officeRef.
Conference on DisarmamentGenevaShamim Aktar11 November 2018[11]
Amit Telang December 2023
Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 [12]
New York CityRuchira Kamboj (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations)1 July 2022[13]
GenevaIndramani PandeyOctober 2020[14] [15]
ParisVishal V. SharmaOctober 2020[16]
GenevaBrajendra Navneet29 June, 2021[17]
JakartaJayant N. Khobragade20 January 2021[18]
Robert Shetkintong March 2020
ViennaMalina PaulJan 2022

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus . 26 May 2021 . mea.gov.in.
  2. News: Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France . 13 March 2021 . Hindustan Times . 14 January 2020 . en.
  3. News: Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany . 16 December 2021 . www.mea.gov.in.
  4. News: Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland . 12 June 2021 . mea.gov.in.
  5. News: Shri Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania . 17 August 2020 . www.mea.gov.in . 5 June 2020.
  6. Web site: ANI . 2023-01-17 . Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia . 2023-01-30 . ThePrint . en-US.
  7. Web site: Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan. 17 August 2010. 10 August 2020.
  8. News: Mr.Takur designated additional charge. ani. 4 March 2019.
  9. News: Mr.La given the additional changes. ani. 4 March 2019.
  10. Web site: Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro. 2020-07-28. www.mea.gov.in.
  11. Web site: Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill. meaindia.nic.in. en. 2017-03-12.
  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.
  13. News: Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India’s Permanent Representative to United Nations . 2 July 2022 . ThePrint . 21 June 2022.
  14. Web site: Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva. www.pmindiaun.org. en. 2017-03-12.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Web site: Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva. www.pmindiaun.org. en. 2017-03-12.
  18. News: Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat . 2 February 2021 . Hindustan Times . 21 January 2021 . en.