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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 commissioners edit
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Ambassadors and high commissioners edit
| Host country | List | Ambassador/High Commissioner | Took office | Websites | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Rudendra Tandon | 2022 June | EOI, Kabul | ||
| Algeria | List | Gaurav Ahluwalia | 2020 August | EOI, Algiers | |
| Angola | List | Vidhu P Nair | 2024 February | EOI, Angola | |
| Argentina Accredited to: | Dinesh Bhatia | 2019 August | EOI, Buenos Aires | ||
| Armenia | Nilakshi Saha Sinha | 2023 March | EOI, Yerevan | ||
| Australia Accredited to: | Gopal Baglay | 2024 January | HCI, Canberra | ||
| Austria | Shambu S Kumaran | 2024 February | EOI, Vienna | ||
| Azerbaijan | Sridharan Madhusudan | 2023 May | EOI, Baku | ||
| Bahrain | Vinod K Jacob | 2023 August | EOI, Bahrain | ||
| Bangladesh | List | Pranay Verma | 2022 September | HCI, Dhaka | |
| Belarus | Alok Ranjan Jha | 2021 May | EOI, Minsk | [1] | |
| Belgium | Saurabh Kumar | 2023 November | EOI, Brussels | ||
| Bhutan | List | Sudhakar Dalela | 2019 April | EOI, Thimpu | |
| Botswana | Bharath Kumar Kuthati | 2023 July | HCI, Gaborone | ||
| Brazil | Suresh Reddy | 2020 September | EOI, Brasilia | ||
| Brunei Darussalam | Alok Amitabh Dimri | 2022 March | HCI, Brunei | ||
| Bulgaria | Sanjay Rana | 2021 February | EOI, Sofia | ||
| Burkina Faso | Bhaskar Bhatt | 2023 September | EOI, Ouagadougou | ||
| Cambodia | Devyani Khobragade | 2020 September | EOI, Phonm Penh | ||
| Cameroon | VACANT (C'dA - Manoj Kumar Sinha) | HCI, Yaounde | |||
| Canada | Sanjay Kumar Verma | 2022 June | HCI, Ottawa | ||
| Chile | Abhilasha Joshi | 2024 March | EOI, Santiago | ||
| China | List | Pradeep Kumar Rawat | 2019 January | EOI, Beijing | |
| Colombia | Vanlalhuma | 2022 November | EOI, Bogota | ||
| DR Congo Accredited to: | VACANT | EOI, Kinshasa | |||
| Congo, Republic of | Madan Lal Raigar | 2023 October | EOI, Brazzavile | ||
| Cote D'Ivoire Accredited to: | Rajesh Ranjan | 2023 January | EOI, Abidjaan | ||
| Croatia | Rajkumar Shrivastava | 2020 June | EOI, Zagreb | ||
| Cuba | T. Armstrong Changsan | 2024 March | EOI, Havana | ||
| Cyprus | Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat | 2019 November | HCI, Nicosia | ||
| Czech Republic | Hemant H. Kotalwar | 2020 September | EOI, Prague | ||
| Denmark | Manish Prabhat | 2024 April | EOI, Copenhegen | ||
| Djibouti | Ramachandran Chandramouli | 2021 June | EOI, Djibouti | ||
| Egypt | Ajit Vinayak Gupte | 2021February | EOI, Cairo | ||
| Equatorial Guinea | VACANT | EOI, Malabo | |||
| Eswatini | N Ram Prasad | 2023 August | HCI, Mbabane | ||
| Eritrea | Prakash Chand | 2023 January | HCI, Asmara | ||
| Ethiopia[a] | 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 | [2] |
| Germany | List | Parvathaneni Harish | 2021 November | EOI, Berlin | [3] |
| Ghana | Manish Gupta | 2023 July | HCI, Accra | ||
| Greece | List | Rudrendra Tandon | 2019 October | EOI, Athens | |
| Guatemala Accredited to: | Manoj Kumar Mohapatra | 2021 December | EOI, Guatemala | ||
| Guinea | Avtar Singh | 2023 January | EOI, Conakry | ||
| Guyana | Amit Telang | 2023 September | HCI, Georgetown | ||
| Hungary Accredited to: | Partha Sathpathy | 2021 November | EOI, Budapest | ||
| Iceland | B. Shyam | 2021 July | EOI, Reykjavik | [4] | |
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | VACANT | ||||
| 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 | Rajesh Vaishnaw | 2021 March | 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 Zealand Accredited to: | Neeta Bhushan | 2022 September | HCI, Wellington | ||
| Niger | VACANT | EOI, Niamey | |||
| Nigeria[b] 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 | HCI, Islamabad | ||
| Papua New Guinea Accredited to: | Inbasekar Sundaramurthy | 2021 June | HCI, Port Moresby | ||
| Paraguay | Yogeshwar Sangwan | 2022 February | EOI, Asuncion | ||
| Peru | Vishwas Vidu Sapkal | 2023 June | EOI, Lima | ||
| Philippines Accredited to: | VACANT | EOI, Manila | |||
| Poland | Nagma Mohammad Mallick | 2021 July | EOI, Warsaw | ||
| Portugal | Manish Chauhan | 2021 January | EOI, Lisbon | ||
| Qatar | Vipul | 2023 August | EOI, Doha | ||
| Romania | List | Rahul Shrivastava | 2020 July | EOI, Bucharest | [5] |
| Russia | List | Vinay Kumar | 2024 March | EOI, Moscow | |
| Saudi Arabia | Suhel Ajaz Khan[6] | 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 Africa Accredited to: | Prabhat Kumar | 2023 August | HCI, Pretoria | ||
| Sri Lanka | Santosh Jha | 2023 December | HCI, Colombo | ||
| Sudan | VACANT | EOI, Khartoum | |||
| Suriname Accredited to: | Shankar Balachandran | 2021 August | EOI, Paramaribo | ||
| Sweden Accredited To: | Tanmaya Lal | 2020 December | EOI, Stockholm | ||
| Switzerland Accredited To: | List | Mridul Kumar | 2023 June | EOI, Berne | |
| Tajikistan | Rajesh Uike | 2024 March | 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 | N. J. Gangte | 2021 August | EOI, Tunis | ||
| Turkey | Virander Paul | 2022 July | EOI, Ankara | ||
| Turkmenistan | Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat | 2024 January | EOI, Ashgabat | ||
| Ukraine | Harsh Kumar Jain | 2022 April | 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 | VACANT (Cd'A - Sripriya Ranganathan) | EOI, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Uzbekistan | Manish Prabhat[7] | 2020 August | EOI, Tashkent | ||
| Venezuela | Ashok Babu | 2023 November | EOI, Caracas | ||
| Vietnam | Sandeep Arya | 2022 October | EOI, Hanoi | ||
| Yemen | VACANT | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Albania Moldova | concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest. | |
| Antigua & Barbuda | Amit Telang | |
| Aruba | ||
| Barbados | ||
| Belize | Shamim Aktar | |
| Benin | ||
| Bolivia | T. N. Mayyas | |
| Central African Republic | Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo | |
| Chad | Abhay Thakur | [8] |
| Comoros | Abhay Kumar | 28 May 2019 [c] |
| Costa Rica | Upendra Singh Rawat | 3 December 2019 [d] |
| Dominican Republic | ||
| Estonia | Radha Venkataraman | 17 May 2019 |
| Ecuador | Sanjiv Ranjan[e] | 2 September 2019 |
| El Salvador | ||
| Gabon | Nina Tshering La | [f][9] |
| Gambia | G. V. Srinivas | 24 October 2019 [g] |
| Georgia | Kishan Dan Dewal[h] | 11 October 2019 |
| Guinea (with Cape Verde) | G. V. Srinivas | 23 September 2019 [i] |
| Haiti | ||
| Honduras | ||
| Liberia | Y. K. Sailas Thangal | |
| Lithuania | ||
| Luxembourg | ||
| Mauritania | ||
| Montenegro | Jaideep Mazumdar [10] | |
| Netherlands Antilles | ||
| Nicaragua (with Panama) | Upendra Singh Rawat | 18 October 2019 [j] |
| North Macedonia | ||
| Réunion | ||
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Amit Telang | |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Junior Bacchus | |
| Saint Lucia | ||
| Sierra Leone | ||
| 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 | [11] |
| Caribbean Community | Georgetown, Guyana | Amit Telang | December 2023 | |
| European Union[EU] | Brussels | Santosh Jha | 17 July 2020 | [12] |
| United Nations | New York City | Ruchira Kamboj (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) | 1 July 2022 | [13] |
| Geneva | Indramani Pandey | October 2020 | [14][15] | |
| UNESCO | Paris | Vishal V. Sharma | October 2020 | [16] |
| World Trade Organisation | Geneva | Brajendra Navneet | 29 June, 2021 | [17] |
| ASEAN | Jakarta | Jayant N. Khobragade | 20 January 2021 | [18] |
| 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
- ^ Indian ambassador to Ethiopia also serves as the permanent representative of India to African Union
- ^ 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 edit
References edit
- ^ "Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 26 May 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.
- ^ "Shri Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". www.mea.gov.in. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
- ^ 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.
External links edit
- List of Indian diplomatic missions - Ministry of External Affairs
- List of Indian Ambassadors to Foreign Countries