List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India

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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]

Ambassadors and high commissioners[edit]

Host country List Ambassador/High Commissioner Took office Websites Refs
 Afghanistan Rudendra Tandon June 2022 EOI, Kabul
 Algeria List Gaurav Ahluwalia August 2020 EOI, ALgiers
 Angola List Vidhu P Nair February 2024 EOI, Angola
 Argentina
Accredited to:
Dinesh Bhatia August 2019 EOI, Buenos Aires
 Armenia Nilakshi Saha April 2023 EOI, Yerevan
 Australia
Accredited to:
Gopal Baglay Jan 2024 HCI, Canberra [1]
 Austria Jaideep Mazumdar 2019 EOI, Vienna
 Azerbaijan Sridharan Madhusudan May 2023 EOI, Baku
 Bahrain Vinod K Jacob August 2023 EOI, Baharain
 Bangladesh List Pranay Verma (Ambassador Designate) July 2022 HCI, Dhaka [2]
 Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha 18 May 2021 EOI, Minsk [3]
 Belgium Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 Official Website [4]
 Bhutan List Sudhakar Dalela April 2019 EOI, Thimpu
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Partha Sathpathy EOI, Hungary and Bosnia & Herzegovina
 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 10 February 2021 EOI, Sofia
 Burkina Faso Vijay Singh Chauhan 24 March 2019 EOI, Ouagadougou
 Cambodia Devyani Khobragade September 2020 EOI, Phonm Penh
 Cameroon Anindya Banerjee 21 February 2022 HCI, Yaounde
 Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma June 2022 HCI, Ottawa [5]
 Chile Subrata Bhattacharjee 28 May 2021 EOI, Santiago [6]
 China List Pradeep Kumar Rawat 7 January 2019 EOI, Beijing
 Colombia Vanna Luma 2022 EOI, Bogota
 DR Congo
Accredited to:
Ram Karan Verma 18 November 2020 EOI, Kinshasa
 Congo, Republic of Madan Lal Raigar 20 October 2023 EOI, Brazzavile
 Cote D'Ivoire
Accredited to:
Rajesh Ranjan 9 January 2023 EOI, Abidjaan
 Croatia Rajkumar Shrivastava 12 June 2020 EOI, Zagreb
 Cuba S. Janakiraman EOI, Havana
 Cyprus Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 11 November 2019 HCI, Nicosia
 Czech Republic Hemant H. Kotalwar EOI, Prague
 Denmark Pooja Kapoor 10 February 2021 EOI, Copenhegen
 Djibouti Ashok Kumar April 2019 EOI, Djibouti
 Egypt Ajit Vinayak Gupte 10 February 2021 EOI, Cairo
 Equatorial Guinea Man Mohan Bhanot April 2019 EOI, Malabo
 Eswatini N Ram Prasad 01 August 2023 HCI, Mbabane
 Eritrea Subhash Chand May 2019
 Ethiopia[a] Robert Shetkintong October 2020 EOI, Addis Ababa
 Fiji
Accredited to:
P. S. Karthigeyan 8 July 2021 HCI, Suva
 Finland Raveesh Kumar 17 July 2020 EOI, Helsinki
 France
Accredited to:
List Jawed Ashraf 13 July 2020 EOI, Paris [7]
 Germany List Parvathaneni Harish 6 November 2021 EOI, Berlin [8]
 Ghana C. Sugandha Rajaram 6 December 2019 HCI, Accra
 Greece List Rudrendra Tandon 3 October 2019 EOI, Athens
 Guatemala Manoj Kumar Mohapatra December 2021 EOI, Guatemala
 Guinea T. C. barupal
 Guyana K. J. Srinivasa[9] 14 August 2019 HCI, Georgetown
 Honduras B. S. Mubarak 1 February 2019
 Hungary Partha Sathpathy
 Iceland B. Shyam 31 July 2021 EOI, Reykjavik [10]
 Indonesia Sandeep Chakravorty August 2023 EOI, Jakarta
 Iran Rudra Gaurav Shreshth
 Iraq Prashant Pise August 2021
 Ireland Akhilesh Mishra 5 August 2021 EOI, Dublin
 Israel List Sanjeev Singla October 2019
 Italy Neena Malhotra
 Jamaica R. Masakui
 Japan Sibi George
 Jordan Anwar Haleem
 Kazakhstan Subhadarshini Tripathi 10 February 2021
 Kenya List
 North Korea -Vacant-
 Korea Amit Kumar
 Kuwait Adarsh Swaika
 Kyrgyzstan A. K. Chatterjee
 Lebanon Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh
 Lesotho Jaideep Sarkar 5 September 2019
 Liberia Pradip Kumar Yadav 24 May 2021 [ EOI, Monoriva] [11]
 Libya Vacant
 Madagascar List Wilson Babu January 2019
 Malawi S. Gopalakrishnan
 Malaysia B. Nagabhushana Reddy 10 August 2021 HCI, Kuala Lumpur
 Maldives Munu Mahawar (High Commissioner October, 2021 Official Website
 Mali Anjani Kumar 7 November 2019
 Malta Gloria Gangte 10 February 2021
 Mauritius K. Nandini Singla
 Mexico (with  Niue,  Samoa) Mridul Kumar
 Mongolia T. Suresh Babu
 Morocco Rajesh Vaishnaw
 Mozambique Ankan Banerjee 10 February 2021
 Myanmar Vinay Kumar 24 February 2022 EOI Yangon
 Namibia M Subbarayudu
   Nepal Naveen Srivastava 17 May 2022[12]
 Netherlands Mrs. Reenat Sandhu https://www.indianembassynetherlands.gov.in/
 New Zealand Neeta Bhushan
 Niger Rajesh Agrawal
 Nigeria[b] G Balasubramaniam 1 March 2019
 Norway Acquino Vimal September 2019
 Oman Amit Narang 21 August 2018
 Pakistan List M. Suresh Kumar (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)
 Papua New Guinea S Inbasekar
 Paraguay Yogeshwar Sangwan 5 February 2022 EOI, Asuncion
 Peru Krishna R. Urs
 Philippines Shambhu S. Kumaran [13] 10 June 2020
 Poland Nagma Mohammad Mallick 9 July 2021 EOI, Warshaw
 Portugal Manish Chauhan
 Qatar Deepak Mittal 29 April 2020 EOi, Doha
 Romania List Rahul Shrivastava 5 June 2020 Official Website [14]
 Russia List Pawan Kapoor
 Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz Khan[15] 16 January 2023 EOI, Riyadh
 Senegal Dinkar Asthana August, 2022
 Serbia Shubhdarshini Tripathi September 2023 EOI, Belgrade
 Seychelles Kartik Pande November 2022
 Singapore Shilpak Ambule [16]
 Slovak Republic Apoorva Srivastava 15 October 2022 eoibratislava.gov.in
 Slovenia Namrata S
 South Africa Prabhat Kumar July/August 2023
 Sudan B. S. Mubarak
 Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay 1 February 2020 hcicolombo.gov.in [17]
 Sudan Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal
 Suriname Shankar Bala Chandran
 Sweden &  Latvia Tanmaya Lal
  Switzerland &  Liechtenstein List Vani Rao
 Tajikistan JP Singh
 Tanzania List Binaya Srikanta Pradhan 20 July 2021 Dar Es Salaam
 Thailand Nagesh Singh
 Trinidad and Tobago (with  Grenada) Raju Sharma (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.) July 2022[c]
 Tunisia N. J. Gangte
 Turkey Virander Paul
 Turkmenistan Vidhu P. Nair
 Ukraine Harsh Kumar
 United Arab Emirates List Pavan Kapoor [18] 28 August 2019
 United Kingdom List Vikram Doraiswami (High Commissioner Designate) Official Website [19]
 United States List Taranjit Singh Sandhu[20] 28 January 2020
 Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat[21] 10 August 2020
 Venezuela Abhishek Singh 2016
 Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma[22] 1 March 2019
 Yemen -Vacant-
 Zambia Ashok Kumar
 Zimbabwe Vijay Khanduja Official Website

Honorary consuls[edit]

Host country High Commissioner / Ambassador Refs
 Albania
 Moldova
concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest.
 Aruba
 Barbados
 Belize Shamim Aktar
 Benin
 Bolivia T. N. Mayyas
 Central African Republic Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo
 Chad Abhay Thakur [23]
 Comoros Abhay Kumar 28 May 2019 [d]
 Costa Rica Upendra Singh Rawat 3 December 2019 [e]
 Dominican Republic
 Estonia Radha Venkataraman 17 May 2019
 Ecuador Sanjiv Ranjan[f] 2 September 2019
 El Salvador
 Gabon Nina Tshering La [g][24]
 Gambia G. V. Srinivas 24 October 2019 [h]
 Georgia Kishan Dan Dewal[i] 11 October 2019
 Guinea (with  Cape Verde) G. V. Srinivas 23 September 2019 [j]
 Haiti
 Honduras
 Liberia Y. K. Sailas Thangal
 Lithuania
 Luxembourg
 Mauritania
 Montenegro Jaideep Mazumdar [25]
 Netherlands Antilles
 Nicaragua (with  Panama) Upendra Singh Rawat 18 October 2019 [k]
 North Macedonia
 Réunion
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
 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 [26]
 European Union[EU] Brussels Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 [27]
 United Nations New York City Ruchira Kamboj (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) 1 July 2022 [28]
Geneva Indramani Pandey October 2020 [29][30]
 UNESCO Paris Vishal V. Sharma October 2020 [31]
 World Trade Organisation Geneva Brajendra Navneet 29 June, 2021 [32]
 ASEAN Jakarta Jayant N. Khobragade 20 January 2021 [33]
 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]

  1. ^ Indian ambassador to Ethiopia also serves as the permanent representative of India to  African Union
  2. ^ Along with Chad
  3. ^ additional charge
  4. ^ additional charge with Madagascar
  5. ^ additional charge with Nicaragua and Panama
  6. ^ additional charge with Colombia
  7. ^ additional charge along with Democratic Republic of the Congo
  8. ^ additional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde
  9. ^ additional charge with Armenia
  10. ^ additional charge on 22 October 2019
  11. ^ additional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Manpreet Vohra appointed India's High Commissioner to Australia". The Hindu. 1 March 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami appointed India's next envoy to Bangladesh". Hindustan Times. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Santosh Jha appointed as next Ambassador of India to Belgium". ANI News. ANI News. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Ajay Bisaria appointed India's next High Commissioner to Canada | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Shri Subrata Bhattacharjee appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Chile". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  9. ^ "New Indian High Commissioner to Guyana accredited". Stabroek News. 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  10. ^ "Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Pradip Kumar Yadav appointed as next ambassador of India to Liberia". ANI News. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Naveen Srivastava appointed as India's ambassador to Nepal". BusinessToday.In. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Shri Shambhu S. Kumaran has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Philippines". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  14. ^ "Shri Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". www.mea.gov.in. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  15. ^ ANI (2023-01-17). "Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  16. ^ "Periasamy Kumaran takes over as the High Commissioner of India to Singapore". www.connectedtoindia.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  17. ^ "Gopal Baglay appointed Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. PTI. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  18. ^ "india-appoints-new-ambassador-to-the-uae". gulfnews. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  19. ^ "Gaitri Issar Kumar takes over as Indian high commissioner to the UK". Hindustan Times. 5 July 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  20. ^ "Taranjit Singh Sandhu appointed India's Ambassador to US". The Hindu. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  21. ^ "Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 10 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  22. ^ "verma-named-indias-next-ambassador-to-vietnam". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  23. ^ "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  24. ^ "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  25. ^ "Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  26. ^ "Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill". meaindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  27. ^ "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.
  28. ^ "Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India's Permanent Representative to United Nations". ThePrint. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
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  31. ^ "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.
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  33. ^ "Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat". Hindustan Times. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

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