List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India

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
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: Uruguay		Dinesh Bhatia	February 2019	EOI, Buenos Aires	^[3]
Armenia		Nilakshi Saha Sinha	January 2023	EOI, Yerevan	^[4]
Australia Accredited to: Nauru		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: European Union Luxembourg		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: Gabon Central African Republic		V. Venkataraman	September 2024	EOI, Kinshasa
Congo, Republic of		Madan Lal Raigar	September 2023	EOI, Brazzavile
Cote D'Ivoire Accredited to: Liberia		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: Arab League		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: African Union		Anil Kumar Rai	2024 February	EOI, Addis Ababa
Fiji Accredited to: Nauru Tuvalu Cook Islands		P. S. Karthigeyan	2021 July	HCI, Suva
Finland		Raveesh Kumar	2020 July	EOI, Helsinki
France Accredited to: Monaco	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: Honduras		Manoj Kumar Mohapatra	2021 December	EOI, Guatemala
Guinea		Avtar Singh	2023 January	EOI, Conakry
Guyana		Amit Telang	2023 September	HCI, Georgetown
Hungary Accredited to: Bosnia and Herzegovina		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: Niue Samoa Cook Islands Vanuatu		Neeta Bhushan	2022 September	HCI, Wellington
Niger		Vacant		EOI, Niamey
Nigeria^[a] Accredited to: Benin The ECOWAS		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: Solomon Islands		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: Palau Federated States of Micronesia		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: Moldova		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: Lesotho		Prabhat Kumar	2023 August	HCI, Pretoria
Spain Accredited to: Andorra		Dinesh K. Patnaik	November 2021
Sri Lanka		Santosh Jha	2023 December	HCI, Colombo
Sudan		Vacant		EOI, Khartoum
Suriname Accredited to: Barbados Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		Subhash Prasad Gupta	July 2024	EOI, Paramaribo
Sweden Accredited To: Latvia		Vacant		EOI, Stockholm
Switzerland Accredited To: Liechtenstein	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

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

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]
United Nations	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

^ 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

References

^ "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.

External links

[11] Along with Chad

[15] tional charge with Madagascar

[16] tional charge with Nicaragua and Panama

[17] tional charge with Colombia

[18] tional charge along with Democratic Republic of the Congo

[20] tional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde

[21] tional charge with Armenia

[22] tional charge on 22 October 2019

[24] tional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019

[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.

[12] ANI (2023-01-17). "Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-01-30.

[13] "Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 10 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2010.

[A_Thakur-14] "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

[NTL-19] "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

[23] "Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.

[25] "Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill". meaindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-03-12.

[26] "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.

[27] "Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India's Permanent Representative to United Nations". ThePrint. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.

[28] "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.

[29] 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.

[30] "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.

[31] "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.

[32] "Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat". Hindustan Times. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

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