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 | 2024 09 13 | |||
 Algeria |
List | Dr. Swati Vijay Kulkarni | 2024 09 | EOI, Algiers | [1] |
 Angola
|
List | Dr. Vidhu P Nair | 2024 01 | EOI, Angola | [2] |
 Argentina Accredited to: |
Dinesh Bhatia | 2019 02 01 | EOI, Buenos Aires | [3] | |
 Armenia |
Nilakshi Saha Sinha | 2023 01 17 | EOI, Yerevan | [4] | |
 Australia Accredited to: |
Gopal Baglay | 2023 09 13 | HCI, Canberra | [5][6] | |
 Austria |
Shambu S. Kumaran | 2024 02 | EOI, Vienna | ||
 Azerbaijan |
Garima Thakuri Pokhriyal | 2023 05 | EOI, Baku | ||
 Bahrain |
Vinod K Jacob | 2023 08 | EOI, Bahrain | ||
 Bangladesh |
List | Pranay Kumar Verma | 2022 07 | HCI, Dhaka | |
 Belarus |
Alok Ranjan Jha | 2021 05 18 | EOI, Minsk | [7] | |
 Belgium Accredited to: |
Saurabh Kumar | 2023 11 | EOI, Brussels | ||
 Bhutan |
List | Sudhakar Dalela | 2022 08 | EOI, Thimpu | |
 Bolivia
|
Rohitkumar R. Vadhwana | 2024 09 | |||
 Botswana |
Bharath Kumar Kuthati | 2023 07 | HCI, Gaborone | ||
 Brazil |
Suresh Reddy | 2020 09 | EOI, Brasilia | ||
 Brunei Darussalam |
Alok Amitabh Dimri | 2022 03 | HCI, Brunei | ||
 Bulgaria |
Sanjay Rana | 2021 03 | EOI, Sofia | ||
 Burkina Faso |
Bhaskar Bhatt | 2023 09 | EOI, Ouagadougou | ||
 Cambodia |
Devyani Khobragade | 2020 09 | EOI, Phonm Penh | ||
 Cameroon |
Vacant
Manoj Kumar Sinha, chargé d'affaires |
HCI, Yaounde | |||
 Canada |
Sanjay Kumar Verma | 2022 06 | HCI, Ottawa | ||
 Chile |
Abhilasha Joshi | 2024 03 | EOI, Santiago | ||
 China |
List | Pradeep Kumar Rawat | 2021 12 | EOI, Beijing | |
 Colombia |
Vanlalhuma | 2022 09 | EOI, Bogota | ||
 DR Congo Accredited to: |
V. Venkataraman | 2024 09 | EOI, Kinshasa | ||
 Congo, Republic of |
Madan Lal Raigar | 2023 09 | EOI, Brazzavile | ||
 Cote D'Ivoire Accredited to: |
Rajesh Ranjan | 2022 11 | EOI, Abidjaan | ||
 Croatia |
Arun Goel | 2024 09 | EOI, Zagreb | ||
 Cuba |
T. Armstrong Changsan | 2024 03 | EOI, Havana | ||
 Cyprus |
Manish | 2024 05 | HCI, Nicosia | ||
 Czech Republic |
Hemant H. Kotalwar | 2020 09 | EOI, Prague | ||
 Denmark |
Manish Prabhat | 2024 04 | EOI, Copenhegen | ||
 Djibouti |
Ramachandran Chandramouli | 2021 06 | EOI, Djibouti | ||
 EgyptAccredited to: |
Ajit Gupte | 2021 02 | EOI, Cairo | ||
 Equatorial Guinea |
Prashant Kumar Das | 2023 07 | EOI, Malabo | ||
 Estonia |
Ajaneesh Kumar | 2021 11 | EOI, Tallinn | ||
 Eswatini |
N Ram Prasad | 2023 08 | HCI, Mbabane | ||
 Eritrea
|
Prakash Chand | 2023 01 | HCI, Asmara | ||
 EthiopiaAccredited to: |
Anil Kumar Rai | 2024 02 | EOI, Addis Ababa | ||
 Fiji Accredited to: |
P. S. Karthigeyan | 2021 07 | HCI, Suva | ||
 Finland |
Raveesh Kumar | 2020 07 | EOI, Helsinki | ||
 France Accredited to: |
List | Jawed Ashraf | 2020 07 | EOI, Paris | [8] |
 Germany
|
List | Vacant | EOI, Berlin | [9] | |
 Ghana
|
Manish Gupta | 2023 07 | HCI, Accra | ||
 Greece
|
List | Rudrendra Tandon | 2023 03 | EOI, Athens | |
 GuatemalaAccredited to: |
Manoj Kumar Mohapatra | 2021 12 | EOI, Guatemala | ||
 Guinea
|
Avtar Singh | 2023 01 | EOI, Conakry | ||
 Guyana
|
Amit Telang | 2023 09 | HCI, Georgetown | ||
 HungaryAccredited to: |
Partha Sathpathy | 2021 11 | EOI, Budapest | ||
 Iceland |
B. Shyam | 2021 07 | EOI, Reykjavik | [10] | |
 Indonesia
|
Sandeep Chakravorty | 2023 08 | EOI, Jakarta | ||
 Iran
|
Rudra Gaurav Shreshth | 2023 05 | EOI, Tehran | ||
 Iraq |
Prashant Pise | 2021 08 | EOI, Baghdad | ||
 Ireland |
Akhilesh Mishra | 2021 08 | EOI, Dublin | ||
 Israel
|
List | Sanjeev Singla | 2019 10 | EOI, Tel Aviv | |
 Italy
|
Vani Rao | 2024 04 | EOI, Rome | ||
 Jamaica
|
R. Masakui | 2020 09 | HCI, Kingston | ||
 Japan
|
Sibi George | 2022 09 | EOI, Tokyo | ||
 Jordan
|
Anwar Haleem | 2019 08 | EOI, Amman | ||
 Kazakhstan |
Nagendra Prasad | 2023 06 | EOI, Astana | ||
 Kenya
|
List | Namgya C. Khampa | 2023 07 | HCI, Nairobi | |
 North Korea
|
Vacant | ||||
 South Korea
|
Amit Kumar | 2022 09 | EOI, Seoul | ||
 Kuwait
|
Adarsh Swaika | 2022 10 | EOI, Kuwait | ||
 Kyrgyzstan
|
A. K. Chatterjee | 2022 08 | EOI, Bishkek | ||
 Lebanon
|
Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh | 2023 06 | EOI, Beirut | ||
 Liberia |
Vacant | EOI, Monrovia | |||
 Libya
|
Ngulkham Jathom Gangte | 2021 10 | |||
 Lithuania
|
Devesh Uttam | 2023 07 | EOI, Vilnius | ||
 Madagascar
|
List | B Wilson Babu | 2022 11 | EOI, Antanarivo | |
 Malawi
|
S. Gopalakrishnan | 2021 01 | HCI, Lilongwe | ||
 Malaysia |
B. Nagabhushana Reddy | 2021 08 | HCI, Kuala Lumpur | ||
 Maldives
|
Munu Mahawar | 2021 10 | HCI, Male | ||
 Mali
|
Anjani Kumar | 2019 11 | EOI, Bamako | ||
 Malta |
Gloria Gangte | 2021 02 | HCI, Malta | ||
 Mauritius
|
K. Nandini Singla | 2020 10 | HCI, Port Louis | ||
 Mexico
|
Pankaj Sharma | 2022 02 | EOI, Mexico City | ||
 Mongolia
|
Atul Malhari Gotsurve | 2024 03 | EOI, Ulaanbaatar | ||
 Morocco |
Sanjay Rana | 2024 09 | EOI, Rabat | ||
 Mozambique |
Robert Shetkintong | 2023 11 | HCI, Maputo | ||
 Myanmar
|
Abhay Thakur | 2024 04 | EOI, Yangon | ||
 Namibia
|
M Subbarayudu | 2023 03 | HCI, Windhoek | ||
 Nepal
|
Naveen Srivastava | 2022 05 | EOI, Kathmandu | ||
 Netherlands
|
Mrs. Reenat Sandhu | 2022 02 | EOI, Hague | ||
 New ZealandAccredited to: |
Neeta Bhushan | 2022 09 | HCI, Wellington | ||
 Niger
|
Vacant | EOI, Niamey | |||
 Nigeria[a]Accredited to:
|
G Balasubramaniam | 2019 03 | HCI, Abuja | ||
 Norway
|
Acquino Vimal | 2023 05 | EOI, Oslo | ||
 Oman
|
Amit Narang | 2021 10 | EOI, Muscat | ||
 Pakistan
|
List | Vacant since August 2019
Geetika Srivastava, chargé d'affaires |
HCI, Islamabad | ||
 Papua New GuineaAccredited to: |
Inbasekar Sundaramurthy | 2021 06 | HCI, Port Moresby | ||
 Paraguay
|
Yogeshwar Sangwan | 2022 02 | EOI, Asuncion | ||
 Peru
|
Vishvas Vidu Sapkal | 2022 07 | EOI, Lima | ||
 PhilippinesAccredited to: |
Harsh Kumar Jain | 2024 05 | EOI, Manila | ||
 Poland |
Nagma Mohammad Mallick | 2021 07 | EOI, Warsaw | ||
 Portugal
|
Manish Chauhan | 2021 01 | EOI, Lisbon | ||
 Qatar |
Vipul | 2023 08 | EOI, Doha | ||
 Romania Accredited to: |
Rahul Shrivastava | ||||
 Russia
|
List | Vinay Kumar | 2024 03 | EOI, Moscow | |
 Saudi Arabia
|
Suhel Ajaz Khan[11] | 2023 01 | EOI, Riyadh | ||
 Senegal
|
Dinkar Asthana | 2022 08 | EOI, Dakar | ||
 Serbia |
Shubhdarshini Tripathi | 2023 09 | EOI, Belgrade | ||
 Seychelles
|
Kartik Pande | 2022 11 | HCI, Victoria-Mahe | ||
 Singapore
|
Shilpak Ambule | 2023 06 | HCI, Singapore | ||
 Slovak Republic
|
Apoorva Srivastava | 2022 10 | EOI, Bratislava | ||
 Slovenia
|
Namrata S Kumar | 2020 08 | EOI, Ljubljana | ||
 South AfricaAccredited to: |
Prabhat Kumar | 2023 08 | HCI, Pretoria | ||
 SpainAccredited to: |
Dinesh K. Patnaik | 2021 11 | |||
 Sri Lanka
|
Santosh Jha | 2023 12 | HCI, Colombo | ||
 Sudan
|
Vacant | EOI, Khartoum | |||
 SurinameAccredited to: |
Subhash Prasad Gupta | 2024 07 | EOI, Paramaribo | ||
 SwedenAccredited To: |
Vacant | EOI, Stockholm | |||
 SwitzerlandAccredited To: |
List | Mridul Kumar | 2023 06 | EOI, Berne | |
 Tajikistan
|
Rajesh Uike | 2024 03 | EOI, Dushanbe | ||
 Tanzania |
List | Vacant | HCI, Dar Es Salaam | ||
 Thailand
|
Nagesh Singh | 2022 08 | EOI, Bangkok | ||
 Trinidad and Tobago |
Pradeep Rajpurohit | 2023 10 | HCI, Port of Spain | ||
 Tunisia
|
Ngulkham Jathom Gangte | 2021 08 | EOI, Tunis | ||
 Turkey
|
Vacant | EOI, Ankara | |||
 Turkmenistan
|
Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat | 2024 01 | EOI, Ashgabat | ||
 Ukraine
|
Ravi Shankar | 2024 05 | EOI, Kyiv | ||
 United Arab Emirates
|
List | Sunjay Sudhir | 2021 11 | EOI, Abu Dhabi | |
 United Kingdom
|
List | Vikram Doraiswami | 2022 09 | HCI, London | |
 United States
|
List | Vinay Mohan Kwatra | 2024 07 | EOI, Washington, D.C. | |
 Uzbekistan
|
Manish Prabhat[12] | 2020 08 | EOI, Tashkent | ||
 Venezuela
|
Ashok Babu | 2023 11 | EOI, Caracas | ||
 Vietnam
|
Sandeep Arya | 2022 10 | EOI, Hanoi | ||
 Yemen
|
Suhel Ajaz Khan | 2024 06 | EOI, Sana'a | ||
 Zambia
|
Ashok Kumar | 2021 06 | HCI, Lusaka | ||
 Zimbabwe
|
Vijay Khanduja | 2020 11 | 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 2019-12-03 [c] |
 Dominican Republic |
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| Estonia |
Radha Venkataraman | 17 May 2019 |
 Ecuador |
Sanjiv Ranjan[d] | 2019 09 02 |
 El Salvador |
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 Gabon |
Nina Tshering La | [e][14] |
 Gambia |
G. V. Srinivas | 2019 10 24[f] |
 Georgia |
Kishan Dan Dewal[g] | 2019 10 11 |
Guinea (with  Cape Verde)
|
G. V. Srinivas | 2019 09 23 [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 | 2019 10 18[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 | 2019 11 13 |
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 2019 10 22
- ^ 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.