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

Host country List Ambassador/High Commissioner Appointed Websites Refs
File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Vacant since August 2021 EOI, Kabul
File:Flag of Albania.svg Albania Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal 2024 09 13
File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria List Dr. Swati Vijay Kulkarni 2024 09 EOI, Algiers [1]
File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola List Dr. Vidhu P Nair 2024 01 EOI, Angola [2]
File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Dinesh Bhatia 2019 02 01 EOI, Buenos Aires [3]
File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia Nilakshi Saha Sinha 2023 01 17 EOI, Yerevan [4]
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Accredited to:
Gopal Baglay 2023 09 13 HCI, Canberra [5][6]
File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria Shambu S. Kumaran 2024 02 EOI, Vienna
File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan Garima Thakuri Pokhriyal 2023 05 EOI, Baku
File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain Vinod K Jacob 2023 08 EOI, Bahrain
File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh List Pranay Kumar Verma 2022 07 HCI, Dhaka
File:Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha 2021 05 18 EOI, Minsk [7]
File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium Saurabh Kumar 2023 11 EOI, Brussels
File:Flag of Bhutan.svg Bhutan List Sudhakar Dalela 2022 08 EOI, Thimpu
File:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia Rohitkumar R. Vadhwana 2024 09
File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana Bharath Kumar Kuthati 2023 07 HCI, Gaborone
File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Suresh Reddy 2020 09 EOI, Brasilia
File:Flag of Brunei.svg Brunei Darussalam Alok Amitabh Dimri 2022 03 HCI, Brunei
File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria Sanjay Rana 2021 03 EOI, Sofia
File:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Burkina Faso Bhaskar Bhatt 2023 09 EOI, Ouagadougou
File:Flag of Cambodia.svg Cambodia Devyani Khobragade 2020 09 EOI, Phonm Penh
File:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon Vacant

Manoj Kumar Sinha, chargé d'affaires

HCI, Yaounde
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma 2022 06 HCI, Ottawa
File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile Abhilasha Joshi 2024 03 EOI, Santiago
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China List Pradeep Kumar Rawat 2021 12 EOI, Beijing
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Vanlalhuma 2022 09 EOI, Bogota
File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg DR Congo V. Venkataraman 2024 09 EOI, Kinshasa
File:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg Congo, Republic of Madan Lal Raigar 2023 09 EOI, Brazzavile
File:Flag of Côte d'Ivoire.svg Cote D'Ivoire Rajesh Ranjan 2022 11 EOI, Abidjaan
File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia Arun Goel 2024 09 EOI, Zagreb
File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba T. Armstrong Changsan 2024 03 EOI, Havana
File:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus Manish 2024 05 HCI, Nicosia
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Hemant H. Kotalwar 2020 09 EOI, Prague
File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Manish Prabhat 2024 04 EOI, Copenhegen
File:Flag of Djibouti.svg Djibouti Ramachandran Chandramouli 2021 06 EOI, Djibouti
File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Ajit Gupte 2021 02 EOI, Cairo
File:Flag of Equatorial Guinea.svg Equatorial Guinea Prashant Kumar Das 2023 07 EOI, Malabo
File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia Ajaneesh Kumar 2021 11 EOI, Tallinn
File:Flag of Eswatini.svg Eswatini N Ram Prasad 2023 08 HCI, Mbabane
File:Flag of Eritrea.svg Eritrea Prakash Chand 2023 01 HCI, Asmara
File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Anil Kumar Rai 2024 02 EOI, Addis Ababa
File:Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji P. S. Karthigeyan 2021 07 HCI, Suva
File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland Raveesh Kumar 2020 07 EOI, Helsinki
File:Flag of France.svg France List Jawed Ashraf 2020 07 EOI, Paris [8]
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany List Vacant EOI, Berlin [9]
File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Manish Gupta 2023 07 HCI, Accra
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece List Rudrendra Tandon 2023 03 EOI, Athens
File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala Manoj Kumar Mohapatra 2021 12 EOI, Guatemala
File:Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea Avtar Singh 2023 01 EOI, Conakry
File:Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana Amit Telang 2023 09 HCI, Georgetown
File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary Partha Sathpathy 2021 11 EOI, Budapest
File:Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland B. Shyam 2021 07 EOI, Reykjavik [10]
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Sandeep Chakravorty 2023 08 EOI, Jakarta
File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Rudra Gaurav Shreshth 2023 05 EOI, Tehran
File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq Prashant Pise 2021 08 EOI, Baghdad
File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Akhilesh Mishra 2021 08 EOI, Dublin
File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel List Sanjeev Singla 2019 10 EOI, Tel Aviv
File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Vani Rao 2024 04 EOI, Rome
File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica R. Masakui 2020 09 HCI, Kingston
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Sibi George 2022 09 EOI, Tokyo
File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan Anwar Haleem 2019 08 EOI, Amman
File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan Nagendra Prasad 2023 06 EOI, Astana
File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya List Namgya C. Khampa 2023 07 HCI, Nairobi
File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea Vacant
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Amit Kumar 2022 09 EOI, Seoul
File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait Adarsh Swaika 2022 10 EOI, Kuwait
File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan A. K. Chatterjee 2022 08 EOI, Bishkek
File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh 2023 06 EOI, Beirut
File:Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia Vacant EOI, Monrovia
File:Flag of Libya.svg Libya Ngulkham Jathom Gangte 2021 10
File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania Devesh Uttam 2023 07 EOI, Vilnius
File:Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar List B Wilson Babu 2022 11 EOI, Antanarivo
File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi S. Gopalakrishnan 2021 01 HCI, Lilongwe
File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia B. Nagabhushana Reddy 2021 08 HCI, Kuala Lumpur
File:Flag of Maldives.svg Maldives Munu Mahawar 2021 10 HCI, Male
File:Flag of Mali.svg Mali Anjani Kumar 2019 11 EOI, Bamako
File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta Gloria Gangte 2021 02 HCI, Malta
File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius K. Nandini Singla 2020 10 HCI, Port Louis
File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Pankaj Sharma 2022 02 EOI, Mexico City
File:Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia Atul Malhari Gotsurve 2024 03 EOI, Ulaanbaatar
File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco Sanjay Rana 2024 09 EOI, Rabat
File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique Robert Shetkintong 2023 11 HCI, Maputo
File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar Abhay Thakur 2024 04 EOI, Yangon
File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia M Subbarayudu 2023 03 HCI, Windhoek
File:Flag of Nepal.svg   Nepal Naveen Srivastava 2022 05 EOI, Kathmandu
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Mrs. Reenat Sandhu 2022 02 EOI, Hague
File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Neeta Bhushan 2022 09 HCI, Wellington
File:Flag of Niger.svg Niger Vacant EOI, Niamey
File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria[lower-alpha 1]
Accredited to:
G Balasubramaniam 2019 03 HCI, Abuja
File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway Acquino Vimal 2023 05 EOI, Oslo
File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman Amit Narang 2021 10 EOI, Muscat
File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan List Vacant since August 2019

Geetika Srivastava, chargé d'affaires

HCI, Islamabad
File:Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Papua New Guinea Inbasekar Sundaramurthy 2021 06 HCI, Port Moresby
File:Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay Yogeshwar Sangwan 2022 02 EOI, Asuncion
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru Vishvas Vidu Sapkal 2022 07 EOI, Lima
File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Harsh Kumar Jain 2024 05 EOI, Manila
File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Nagma Mohammad Mallick 2021 07 EOI, Warsaw
File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal Manish Chauhan 2021 01 EOI, Lisbon
File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar Vipul 2023 08 EOI, Doha
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania Rahul Shrivastava
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia List Vinay Kumar 2024 03 EOI, Moscow
File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz Khan[11] 2023 01 EOI, Riyadh
File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal Dinkar Asthana 2022 08 EOI, Dakar
File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia Shubhdarshini Tripathi 2023 09 EOI, Belgrade
File:Flag of Seychelles.svg Seychelles Kartik Pande 2022 11 HCI, Victoria-Mahe
File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Shilpak Ambule 2023 06 HCI, Singapore
File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovak Republic Apoorva Srivastava 2022 10 EOI, Bratislava
File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia Namrata S Kumar 2020 08 EOI, Ljubljana
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Prabhat Kumar 2023 08 HCI, Pretoria
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain Dinesh K. Patnaik 2021 11
File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka Santosh Jha 2023 12 HCI, Colombo
File:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan Vacant EOI, Khartoum
File:Flag of Suriname.svg Suriname Subhash Prasad Gupta 2024 07 EOI, Paramaribo
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Vacant EOI, Stockholm
File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland List Mridul Kumar 2023 06 EOI, Berne
File:Flag of Tajikistan.svg Tajikistan Rajesh Uike 2024 03 EOI, Dushanbe
File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania List Vacant HCI, Dar Es Salaam
File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Nagesh Singh 2022 08 EOI, Bangkok
File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago Pradeep Rajpurohit 2023 10 HCI, Port of Spain
File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Ngulkham Jathom Gangte 2021 08 EOI, Tunis
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Vacant EOI, Ankara
File:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Turkmenistan Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 2024 01 EOI, Ashgabat
File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Ravi Shankar 2024 05 EOI, Kyiv
File:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates List Sunjay Sudhir 2021 11 EOI, Abu Dhabi
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom List Vikram Doraiswami 2022 09 HCI, London
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States List Vinay Mohan Kwatra 2024 07 EOI, Washington, D.C.
File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat[12] 2020 08 EOI, Tashkent
File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Ashok Babu 2023 11 EOI, Caracas
File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Sandeep Arya 2022 10 EOI, Hanoi
File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Suhel Ajaz Khan 2024 06 EOI, Sana'a
File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia Ashok Kumar 2021 06 HCI, Lusaka
File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe Vijay Khanduja 2020 11 EOI, Harare

Honorary consuls

Host country High Commissioner / Ambassador Refs
File:Flag of Moldova.svg Moldova concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest.
File:Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg Antigua & Barbuda Amit Telang
File:Flag of Aruba.svg Aruba
File:Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados
File:Flag of Belize.svg Belize Shamim Aktar
File:Flag of Benin.svg Benin
File:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia T. N. Mayyas
File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Central African Republic Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo
File:Flag of Chad.svg Chad Abhay Thakur [13]
File:Flag of the Comoros.svg Comoros Abhay Kumar 28 May 2019 [lower-alpha 2]
File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica Upendra Singh Rawat 3 December 2019-12-03 [lower-alpha 3]
File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic
File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia Radha Venkataraman 17 May 2019
File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador Sanjiv Ranjan[lower-alpha 4] 2019 09 02
File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador
File:Flag of Gabon.svg Gabon Nina Tshering La [lower-alpha 5][14]
File:Flag of The Gambia.svg Gambia G. V. Srinivas 2019 10 24[lower-alpha 6]
File:Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia Kishan Dan Dewal[lower-alpha 7] 2019 10 11
File:Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea (with File:Flag of Cape Verde.svg Cape Verde) G. V. Srinivas 2019 09 23 [lower-alpha 8]
File:Flag of Haiti.svg Haiti
File:Flag of Honduras.svg Honduras
File:Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia Y. K. Sailas Thangal
File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania
File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg
File:Flag of Mauritania.svg Mauritania
File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro Jaideep Mazumdar [15]
File:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1986–2010).svg Netherlands Antilles
File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua (with File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama) Upendra Singh Rawat 2019 10 18[lower-alpha 9]
File:Flag of North Macedonia.svg North Macedonia
File:Flag of France.svg Réunion
File:Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg Saint Kitts and Nevis Amit Telang
File:Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Junior Bacchus
File:Flag of Saint Lucia.svg Saint Lucia
File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone
File:Flag of Togo (3-2).svg Togo M. S. Padmaja 2019 11 13

Permanent representatives to international organizations

Host organization Location Permanent Representatives and Deputy Representatives Took office Ref.
Conference on Disarmament Geneva Shamim Aktar 11 November 2018 [16]
File:Flag of CARICOM.svg Caribbean Community Georgetown, Guyana Amit Telang December 2023
File:Flag of Europe.svg European Union[EU] Brussels Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 [17]
File:Flag of the United Nations.svg 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]
File:Flag of UNESCO.svg UNESCO Paris Vishal V. Sharma October 2020 [21]
File:WTO Logo.svg World Trade Organisation Geneva Brajendra Navneet 29 June, 2021 [22]
File:Infobox ASEAN flag.svg ASEAN Jakarta Jayant N. Khobragade 20 January 2021 [23]
File:Flag of the African Union.svg African Union[AU] Addis Ababa Robert Shetkintong March 2020
File:Flag of IAEA.svg 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

  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 2019 10 22
  9. additional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019

See also

References

  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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