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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

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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
 Egypt
Accredited 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
 Ethiopia
Accredited 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
 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 [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 Zealand
Accredited 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 Guinea
Accredited to:
 Inbasekar Sundaramurthy 2021 June HCI, Port Moresby
 Paraguay Yogeshwar Sangwan 2022 February EOI, Asuncion
 Peru Vishvas Vidu Sapkal July 2022 EOI, Lima
 Philippines
Accredited 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 Africa
Accredited to:
 Prabhat Kumar 2023 August HCI, Pretoria
 Spain
Accredited to:
 Dinesh K. Patnaik November 2021
 Sri Lanka Santosh Jha 2023 December HCI, Colombo
 Sudan Vacant EOI, Khartoum
 Suriname
Accredited to:
 Subhash Prasad Gupta July 2024 EOI, Paramaribo
 Sweden
Accredited To:
 Vacant EOI, Stockholm
  Switzerland
Accredited 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

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Host country High Commissioner / Ambassador Refs
 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 [13]
 Comoros Abhay Kumar 28 May 2019 [b]
 Costa Rica Upendra Singh Rawat 3 December 2019 [c]
 Dominican Republic
 Estonia Radha Venkataraman 17 May 2019
 Ecuador Sanjiv Ranjan[d] 2 September 2019
 El Salvador
 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
 Honduras
 Liberia Y. K. Sailas Thangal
 Lithuania
 Luxembourg
 Mauritania
 Montenegro Jaideep Mazumdar [15]
 Netherlands Antilles
 Nicaragua (with  Panama) Upendra Singh Rawat 18 October 2019 [i]
 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

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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

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 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

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  1. ^ Along with Chad
  2. ^ additional charge with Madagascar
  3. ^ additional charge with Nicaragua and Panama
  4. ^ additional charge with Colombia
  5. ^ additional charge along with Democratic Republic of the Congo
  6. ^ additional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde
  7. ^ additional charge with Armenia
  8. ^ additional charge on 22 October 2019
  9. ^ additional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Dinesh Bhatia appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Argentina". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. February 1, 2019.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Shri Gopal Baglay appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. September 13, 2023.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  9. ^ "Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  11. ^ ANI (2023-01-17). "Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  12. ^ "Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 10 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  13. ^ "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  14. ^ "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  15. ^ "Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  16. ^ "Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill". meaindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  17. ^ "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.
  18. ^ "Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India's Permanent Representative to United Nations". ThePrint. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  19. ^ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  20. ^ 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.
  21. ^ "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.
  22. ^ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  23. ^ "Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat". Hindustan Times. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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