List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India
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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
edit| Host country | List | Ambassador/High Commissioner | Appointed | Websites | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Afghanistan |
Vacant since August 2021 | EOI, Kabul | |||
 Albania
|
Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal | September 2024 | |||
 Algeria |
List | Dr. Swati Vijay Kulkarni | September 2024 | EOI, Algiers | [1] |
 Angola
|
List | Dr. Vidhu P Nair | January 2024 | EOI, Angola | [2] |
 Argentina Accredited to: |
Dinesh Bhatia | February 2019 | EOI, Buenos Aires | [3] | |
 Armenia |
Nilakshi Saha Sinha | January 2023 | EOI, Yerevan | [4] | |
 Australia Accredited to: |
Gopal Baglay | September 2023 | HCI, Canberra | [5][6] | |
 Austria |
Shambu S. Kumaran | February 2024 | EOI, Vienna | ||
 Azerbaijan |
Sridharan Madhusudan | May 2023 | EOI, Baku | ||
 Bahrain |
Vinod K Jacob | August 2023 | EOI, Bahrain | ||
 Bangladesh |
List | Pranay Kumar Verma | July 2022 | HCI, Dhaka | |
 Belarus |
Alok Ranjan Jha | May 2021 | EOI, Minsk | [7] | |
 Belgium Accredited to: |
Saurabh Kumar | November 2023 | EOI, Brussels | ||
 Bhutan |
List | Sudhakar Dalela | August 2022 | EOI, Thimpu | |
 Bolivia
|
Rohitkumar R. Vadhwana | September 2024 | |||
 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 | March 2021 | EOI, Sofia | ||
 Burkina Faso |
Bhaskar Bhatt | September 2023 | EOI, Ouagadougou | ||
 Cambodia |
Devyani Khobragade | September 2020 | EOI, Phonm Penh | ||
 Cameroon |
Vacant
Manoj Kumar Sinha, chargé d'affaires |
HCI, Yaounde | |||
 Canada |
Sanjay Kumar Verma | June 2022 | HCI, Ottawa | ||
 Chile |
Abhilasha Joshi | March 2024 | EOI, Santiago | ||
 China |
List | Pradeep Kumar Rawat | December 2021 | EOI, Beijing | |
 Colombia |
Vanlalhuma | September 2022 | EOI, Bogota | ||
 DR Congo Accredited to: |
V. Venkataraman | September 2024 | EOI, Kinshasa | ||
 Congo, Republic of |
Madan Lal Raigar | September 2023 | EOI, Brazzavile | ||
 Cote D'Ivoire Accredited to: |
Rajesh Ranjan | November 2022 | EOI, Abidjaan | ||
 Croatia |
Arun Goel | September 2024 | EOI, Zagreb | ||
 Cuba |
T. Armstrong Changsan | March 2024 | EOI, Havana | ||
 Cyprus |
Manish | May 2024 | HCI, Nicosia | ||
 Czech Republic |
Hemant H. Kotalwar | September 2020 | EOI, Prague | ||
 Denmark |
Manish Prabhat | April 2024 | EOI, Copenhegen | ||
 Djibouti |
Ramachandran Chandramouli | June 2021 | EOI, Djibouti | ||
 EgyptAccredited to: |
Ajit Gupte | February 2021 | EOI, Cairo | ||
 Equatorial Guinea |
Prashant Kumar Das | July 2023 | EOI, Malabo | ||
 Estonia |
Ajaneesh Kumar | November 2021 | EOI, Tallinn | ||
 Eswatini |
N Ram Prasad | 2023 August | HCI, Mbabane | ||
 Eritrea
|
Prakash Chand | 2023 January | HCI, Asmara | ||
 EthiopiaAccredited to: |
Anil Kumar Rai | 2024 February | EOI, Addis Ababa | ||
 Fiji Accredited to: |
P. S. Karthigeyan | 2021 July | HCI, Suva | ||
 Finland |
Raveesh Kumar | 2020 July | EOI, Helsinki | ||
 France Accredited to: |
List | Jawed Ashraf | 2020 July | EOI, Paris | [8] |
 Germany
|
List | Vacant | EOI, Berlin | [9] | |
 Ghana
|
Manish Gupta | 2023 July | HCI, Accra | ||
 Greece
|
List | Rudrendra Tandon | March 2023 | EOI, Athens | |
 GuatemalaAccredited to: |
Manoj Kumar Mohapatra | 2021 December | EOI, Guatemala | ||
 Guinea
|
Avtar Singh | 2023 January | EOI, Conakry | ||
 Guyana
|
Amit Telang | 2023 September | HCI, Georgetown | ||
 HungaryAccredited to: |
Partha Sathpathy | 2021 November | EOI, Budapest | ||
 Iceland |
B. Shyam | 2021 July | EOI, Reykjavik | [10] | |
 Indonesia
|
Sandeep Chakravorty | 2023 August | EOI, Jakarta | ||
 Iran
|
Rudra Gaurav Shreshth | 2023 May | EOI, Tehran | ||
 Iraq |
Prashant Pise | 2021 August | EOI, Baghdad | ||
 Ireland |
Akhilesh Mishra | 2021 August | EOI, Dublin | ||
 Israel
|
List | Sanjeev Singla | 2019 October | EOI, Tel Aviv | |
 Italy
|
Vani Rao | 2024 April | EOI, Rome | ||
 Jamaica
|
R. Masakui | 2020 September | HCI, Kingston | ||
 Japan
|
Sibi George | 2022 September | EOI, Tokyo | ||
 Jordan
|
Anwar Haleem | 2019 August | EOI, Amman | ||
 Kazakhstan |
Nagendra Prasad | 2023 June | EOI, Astana | ||
 Kenya
|
List | Namgya C. Khampa | 2023 July | HCI, Nairobi | |
 North Korea
|
Vacant | ||||
 South Korea
|
Amit Kumar | 2022 September | EOI, Seoul | ||
 Kuwait
|
Adarsh Swaika | 2022 October | EOI, Kuwait | ||
 Kyrgyzstan
|
A. K. Chatterjee | 2022 August | EOI, Bishkek | ||
 Lebanon
|
Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh | 2023 June | EOI, Beirut | ||
 Liberia |
Vacant | EOI, Monrovia | |||
 Libya
|
Ngulkham Jathom Gangte | October 2021 | |||
 Lithuania
|
Devesh Uttam | 2023 July | EOI, Vilnius | ||
 Madagascar
|
List | B Wilson Babu | 2022 November | EOI, Antanarivo | |
 Malawi
|
S. Gopalakrishnan | 2021 January | HCI, Lilongwe | ||
 Malaysia |
B. Nagabhushana Reddy | 2021 August | HCI, Kuala Lumpur | ||
 Maldives
|
Munu Mahawar | 2021 October | HCI, Male | ||
 Mali
|
Anjani Kumar | 2019 November | EOI, Bamako | ||
 Malta |
Gloria Gangte | 2021 February | HCI, Malta | ||
 Mauritius
|
K. Nandini Singla | 2020 October | HCI, Port Louis | ||
 Mexico
|
Pankaj Sharma | 2022 February | EOI, Mexico City | ||
 Mongolia
|
Atul Malhari Gotsurve | 2024 March | EOI, Ulaanbaatar | ||
 Morocco |
Sanjay Rana | September 2024 | EOI, Rabat | ||
 Mozambique |
Robert Shetkintong | 2023 November | HCI, Maputo | ||
 Myanmar
|
Abhay Thakur | 2024 April | EOI, Yangon | ||
 Namibia
|
M Subbarayudu | 2023 March | HCI, Windhoek | ||
 Nepal
|
Naveen Srivastava | 2022 May | EOI, Kathmandu | ||
 Netherlands
|
Mrs. Reenat Sandhu | 2022 February | EOI, Hague | ||
 New ZealandAccredited to: |
Neeta Bhushan | 2022 September | HCI, Wellington | ||
 Niger
|
Vacant | EOI, Niamey | |||
 Nigeria[a]Accredited to:
|
G Balasubramaniam | 2019 March | HCI, Abuja | ||
 Norway
|
Acquino Vimal | 2023 May | EOI, Oslo | ||
 Oman
|
Amit Narang | 2021 October | EOI, Muscat | ||
 Pakistan
|
List | Vacant since August 2019
Geetika Srivastava, chargé d'affaires |
HCI, Islamabad | ||
 Papua New GuineaAccredited to: |
Inbasekar Sundaramurthy | 2021 June | HCI, Port Moresby | ||
 Paraguay
|
Yogeshwar Sangwan | 2022 February | EOI, Asuncion | ||
 Peru
|
Vishvas Vidu Sapkal | July 2022 | EOI, Lima | ||
 PhilippinesAccredited to: |
Harsh Kumar Jain | May 2024 | EOI, Manila | ||
 Poland |
Nagma Mohammad Mallick | 2021 July | EOI, Warsaw | ||
 Portugal
|
Manish Chauhan | 2021 January | EOI, Lisbon | ||
 Qatar |
Vipul | 2023 August | EOI, Doha | ||
 Romania Accredited to: |
Rahul Shrivastava | ||||
 Russia
|
List | Vinay Kumar | 2024 March | EOI, Moscow | |
 Saudi Arabia
|
Suhel Ajaz Khan[11] | 2023 January | EOI, Riyadh | ||
 Senegal
|
Dinkar Asthana | 2022 August | EOI, Dakar | ||
 Serbia |
Shubhdarshini Tripathi | 2023 September | EOI, Belgrade | ||
 Seychelles
|
Kartik Pande | 2022 November | HCI, Victoria-Mahe | ||
 Singapore
|
Shilpak Ambule | 2023 June | HCI, Singapore | ||
 Slovak Republic
|
Apoorva Srivastava | 2022 October | EOI, Bratislava | ||
 Slovenia
|
Namrata S Kumar | 2020 August | EOI, Ljubljana | ||
 South AfricaAccredited to: |
Prabhat Kumar | 2023 August | HCI, Pretoria | ||
 SpainAccredited to: |
Dinesh K. Patnaik | November 2021 | |||
 Sri Lanka
|
Santosh Jha | 2023 December | HCI, Colombo | ||
 Sudan
|
Vacant | EOI, Khartoum | |||
 SurinameAccredited to: |
Subhash Prasad Gupta | July 2024 | EOI, Paramaribo | ||
 SwedenAccredited To: |
Vacant | EOI, Stockholm | |||
 SwitzerlandAccredited To: |
List | Mridul Kumar | June 2023 | EOI, Berne | |
 Tajikistan
|
Rajesh Uike | March 2024 | EOI, Dushanbe | ||
 Tanzania |
List | Vacant | HCI, Dar Es Salaam | ||
 Thailand
|
Nagesh Singh | 2022 August | EOI, Bangkok | ||
 Trinidad and Tobago |
Pradeep Rajpurohit | 2023 October | HCI, Port of Spain | ||
 Tunisia
|
Ngulkham Jathom Gangte | August 2021 | EOI, Tunis | ||
 Turkey
|
Vacant | EOI, Ankara | |||
 Turkmenistan
|
Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat | January 2024 | EOI, Ashgabat | ||
 Ukraine
|
Ravi Shankar | May 2024 | EOI, Kyiv | ||
 United Arab Emirates
|
List | Sunjay Sudhir | 2021 November | EOI, Abu Dhabi | |
 United Kingdom
|
List | Vikram Doraiswami | 2022 September | HCI, London | |
 United States
|
List | Vinay Mohan Kwatra | 2024 July | EOI, Washington, D.C. | |
 Uzbekistan
|
Manish Prabhat[12] | 2020 August | EOI, Tashkent | ||
 Venezuela
|
Ashok Babu | 2023 November | EOI, Caracas | ||
 Vietnam
|
Sandeep Arya | 2022 October | EOI, Hanoi | ||
 Yemen
|
Suhel Ajaz Khan | July 2024 | EOI, Sana'a | ||
 Zambia
|
Ashok Kumar | 2021 June | HCI, Lusaka | ||
 Zimbabwe
|
Vijay Khanduja | 2020 November | EOI, Harare | ||
Honorary consuls
edit| Host country | High Commissioner / Ambassador | Refs |
|---|---|---|
 Moldova |
concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest. | |
 Antigua & Barbuda |
Amit Telang | |
 Aruba |
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 Barbados |
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 Belize |
Shamim Aktar | |
 Benin |
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| Bolivia |
T. N. Mayyas | |
 Central African Republic |
Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo | |
 Chad |
Abhay Thakur | [13] |
 Comoros |
Abhay Kumar | 28 May 2019 [b] |
 Costa Rica |
Upendra Singh Rawat | 3 December 2019 [c] |
 Dominican Republic |
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| Estonia |
Radha Venkataraman | 17 May 2019 |
 Ecuador |
Sanjiv Ranjan[d] | 2 September 2019 |
 El Salvador |
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 Gabon |
Nina Tshering La | [e][14] |
 Gambia |
G. V. Srinivas | 24 October 2019 [f] |
 Georgia |
Kishan Dan Dewal[g] | 11 October 2019 |
Guinea (with  Cape Verde)
|
G. V. Srinivas | 23 September 2019 [h] |
 Haiti |
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 Honduras |
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| Liberia |
Y. K. Sailas Thangal | |
| Lithuania |
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 Luxembourg |
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 Mauritania |
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 Montenegro |
Jaideep Mazumdar [15] | |
 Netherlands Antilles |
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 Nicaragua (with  Panama) |
Upendra Singh Rawat | 18 October 2019 [i] |
 North Macedonia |
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| Réunion |
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 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
Amit Telang | |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Junior Bacchus | |
 Saint Lucia |
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 Sierra Leone |
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 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 | [16] |
 Caribbean Community |
Georgetown, Guyana | Amit Telang | December 2023 | |
 European Union[EU] |
Brussels | Santosh Jha | 17 July 2020 | [17] |
 United Nations
|
New York City | Parvathaneni Harish (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) | September 2024 | [18] |
| Geneva
ARINDAM BAGCHI |FROM 5TH JANUARY |
[19][20] | |||
 UNESCO
|
Paris | Vishal V. Sharma | October 2020 | [21] |
 World Trade Organisation
|
Geneva | Brajendra Navneet | 29 June, 2021 | [22] |
 ASEAN
|
Jakarta | Jayant N. Khobragade | 20 January 2021 | [23] |
 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- ^ Along with Chad
- ^ additional charge with Madagascar
- ^ additional charge with Nicaragua and Panama
- ^ additional charge with Colombia
- ^ additional charge along with Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ^ additional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde
- ^ additional charge with Armenia
- ^ additional charge on 22 October 2019
- ^ additional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "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. September 13, 2024.
- ^ "Dr. Vidhu P. Nair appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Angola". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. January 11, 2024.
- ^ "Dinesh Bhatia appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Argentina". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. February 1, 2019.
- ^ "Ms. Nilakshi Saha Sinha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Armenia". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. January 17, 2023.
- ^ "Shri Gopal Baglay appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. September 13, 2023.
- ^ "Shri Gopal Baglay concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Nauru". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. June 23, 2024.
- ^ "Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. May 18, 2021.
- ^ "Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ "Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ ANI (2023-01-17). "Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
- ^ "Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 10 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
- ^ "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ^ "Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill". meaindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India's Permanent Representative to United Nations". ThePrint. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ^ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
- ^ "Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat". Hindustan Times. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.