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

Africa

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites	Refs
Algeria	List	Dr. Swati Vijay Kulkarni	April 2024	EOI, Algiers	^[1]
Angola	List	Dr. Vidhu P Nair	February 2024	EOI, Angola	^[2]
Botswana		Bharath Kumar Kuthati	July 2023	HCI, Gaborone
Burkina Faso		Om Prakash Meena	January 2025	EOI, Ouagadougou
Cameroon		Vijay Khanduja	May 2024	HCI, Yaounde
DR Congo Accredited to: Gabon Central African Republic		V. Venkataraman	September 2024	EOI, Kinshasa
Congo, Republic of		Madan Lal Raigar	September 2024	EOI, Brazzavile
Cote D'Ivoire Accredited to: Liberia		Lakshmanan Ramesh Babu	June 2026	EOI, Abidjaan
Djibouti		M. Keivom	August 2024	EOI, Djibouti
Egypt Accredited to: Arab League	List	Suresh K. Reddy	May 2025	EOI, Cairo
Equatorial Guinea		Prashant Kumar Das	July 2023	EOI, Malabo
Eswatini		N Ram Prasad	August 2023	HCI, Mbabane
Eritrea		Raj Kamal	January 2026	HCI, Asmara
Ethiopia Accredited to: African Union		Anil Kumar Rai	February 2024	EOI, Addis Ababa
Ghana		Surinder Bhagat	April 2026	HCI, Accra
Guinea		Sandeep Sood	January 2026	EOI, Conakry
Kenya	List	Adarsh Swaika	July 2025	HCI, Nairobi
Liberia		Manoj Bihari Verma	January 2025	EOI, Monrovia
Libya		Hifzur Rahman	November 2025
Madagascar	List	Vacant	November 2022	EOI, Antanarivo
Malawi		Amararam Gujar	July 2025	HCI, Lilongwe
Mali		Dr.N.Nandakumar	November 2019	EOI, Bamako
Mauritania		Neeraj Agrawal	January 2026	EOI, Nouackchott
Mauritius		Anurag Srivastava	December 2024	HCI, Port Louis
Morocco	List	Sanjay Rana	September 2024	EOI, Rabat
Mozambique		Robert Shetkintong	November 2023	HCI, Maputo
Namibia		Rahul Shrivastava	November 2024	HCI, Windhoek
Niger		Sita Ram Meena	May 2024	EOI, Niamey
Nigeria^[a] Accredited to: Benin ECOWAS		Abhishek Singh	October 2025	HCI, Abuja
Senegal		Dinkar Asthana	August 2022	EOI, Dakar
Seychelles		Rohit Rathish	September 2025	HCI, Victoria-Mahe
South Africa Accredited to: Lesotho	List	Prabhat Kumar	August 2, 2023	HCI, Pretoria
Sudan	List	Vacant		EOI, Khartoum
Tanzania	List	Bishwadip Dey	June 2024	HCI, Dar Es Salaam
Tunisia		Devyani Uttam Khobragade	November 6, 2026	EOI, Tunis
Zambia		Alok Ranjan Jha	December 2024	HCI, Lusaka
Zimbabwe		Bramha Kumar	April 2024	EOI, Harare

Asia

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites
Afghanistan		Karan Yadav, chargé d'affaires	October 2025
Bahrain		Vinod K Jacob	August 2023	EOI, Bahrain
Bangladesh	List	Dinesh Trivedi	Apr 2026	HCI, Dhaka
Bhutan	List	Sandeep Arya	August 2025	EOI, Thimpu
Brunei Darussalam		Ramu Abbagani	July 2025	HCI, Brunei
Cambodia		Vanlalvawna Bawitlung	January 2025	EOI, Phonm Penh
China	List	Vikram Doraiswami	March 2026	EOI, Beijing
Indonesia	List	Sandeep Chakravorty	August 2023	EOI, Jakarta
Iran	List	Rudra Gaurav Shreshth	May 2023	EOI, Tehran
Iraq		Soumen Bagchi	November 2024	EOI, Baghdad
Israel	List	Jitender Pal Singh	January 2025	EOI, Tel Aviv
Japan	List	Nagma Mohamed Mallick	September 2025	EOI, Tokyo
Jordan		Manish Chauhan	May 2024	EOI, Amman
North Korea		Aliawati Longkumer	June 2025
South Korea	List	Gourangalal Das	September 2025	EOI, Seoul
Kazakhstan		Manish Chauhan	June 2023	EOI, Astana
Kuwait		Paramita Tripathi	October 2022	EOI, Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan		Birender Singh Yadav	December 2024	EOI, Bishkek
Lebanon		Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh	June 2023	EOI, Beirut
Malaysia	List	B. Nagabhushana Reddy	August 2021	HCI, Kuala Lumpur
Maldives		G. Balasubramanian	December 2024	HCI, Male
Mongolia		Atul Malhari Gotsurve	March 2024	EOI, Ulaanbaatar
Myanmar	List	Abhay Thakur	April 2024	EOI, Yangon
Nepal		Naveen Srivastava	June 2022	EOI, Kathmandu
Oman		Prashant Pise	May 2026	EOI, Muscat
Pakistan	List	Geetika Srivastava, chargé d'affaires	August 2023	HCI, Islamabad
Philippines Accredited to: Palau Federated States of Micronesia		Harsh Kumar Jain	April 2024	EOI, Manila
Qatar	List	Vipul	August 2023	EOI, Doha
Saudi Arabia		Vipul	June 2026	EOI, Riyadh
Singapore	List	Shilpak Ambule	June 2023	HCI, Singapore
Sri Lanka	List	Santosh Jha	December 2023	HCI, Colombo
Tajikistan		Rajesh Uike	March 2024	EOI, Dushanbe
Thailand		Puneet Agrawal	May 2025	EOI, Bangkok
Turkmenistan		Bandaru Wilsonbabu	October 2025	EOI, Ashgabat
United Arab Emirates	List	Dr. Deepak Mittal	October 2025	EOI, Abu Dhabi
Uzbekistan		Smita Pant^[3]	December 2023	EOI, Tashkent
Vietnam	List	Tshering W. Sherpa	September 2025	EOI, Hanoi
Yemen		Suhel Ajaz Khan	June 2024

Europe

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites	Refs
Albania		Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal	January 2025	EOI, Tirana	^[4]
Armenia		Nilakshi Saha Sinha	March 2023	EOI, Yerevan	^[5]
Austria		Shambu S. Kumaran	April 2024	EOI, Vienna
Azerbaijan		Abhay Kumar		EOI, Baku
Belarus		Ashok Kumar	December 2024	EOI, Minsk	^[6]
Belgium Accredited to: European Union Luxembourg		Pranay Kumar Verma	April 2026	EOI, Brussels
Bulgaria		Arun Kumar Sahu	December 2024	EOI, Sofia
Croatia		Arun Goel	September 2024	EOI, Zagreb
Cyprus		Mr Manish	May 2024	HCI, Nicosia
Czech Republic	List	Raveesh Kumar	September 2024	EOI, Prague
Denmark	List	Manish Prabhat	April 2024	EOI, Copenhegen
Estonia		Ashish Kumar Sinha	April 2025	EOI, Tallinn
Finland	List	Hemant H. Kotalwar	June 2024	EOI, Helsinki
France Accredited to: Monaco	List	Sanjeev Singla	July 2025	EOI, Paris	^[7]
Germany	List	Ajit Gupte	October 2024	EOI, Berlin	^[8]
Greece	List	Rudrendra Tandon	March 2023	EOI, Athens
Hungary Accredited to: Bosnia and Herzegovina		Anshuman Gaur	October 2025	EOI, Budapest
Iceland		R Ravindra	July 2025	EOI, Reykjavik	^[9]
Ireland	List	Manish Gupta	October 2025	EOI, Dublin
Italy		Vani Rao	April 2024	EOI, Rome
Latvia		Namrata S Kumar	January 2025	EOI, Riga
Lithuania		Devesh Uttam	July 2023	EOI, Vilnius
Malta		Rachita Bhandari	March 2026	HCI, Malta
Netherlands		Mr Kumar Tuhin	June 2024	EOI, Hague
Norway		Gloria Gangte	September 2025	EOI, Oslo
Poland		Neeta Bhushan	February 2026	EOI, Warsaw
Portugal		Puneet Roy Kundal	August 2024	EOI, Lisbon
Romania Accredited to: Moldova	List	Manoj Kumar Mohapatra	July 2025	EOI, Bucharest
Russia	List	Vinay Kumar	March 2024	EOI, Moscow
Serbia		Abhishek Shukla	September 2025	EOI, Belgrade
Slovak Republic		Vishvas Vidu Sapkal	June 20, 2026	EOI, Bratislava
Slovenia		Amit Narang	March 2025	EOI, Ljubljana
Spain Accredited to: Andorra		Jayant N. Khobragade	September 2025	EOI, Madrid
Sweden Accredited To: Latvia		Anurag Bhushan	June 2025	EOI, Stockholm
Switzerland Accredited To: Liechtenstein	List	Mridul Kumar	June 2023	EOI, Berne
Turkey		Shri Muktesh K. Pardeshi	November 2024	EOI, Ankara
Ukraine		Ravi Shankar	May 2024	EOI, Kyiv
United Kingdom	List	Periasamy Kumaran	March 2026	HCI, London

North America

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites
Canada		Dinesh K. Patnaik	August 2025	HCI, Ottawa
Cuba		T. Armstrong Changsan	March 2024	EOI, Havana
Guatemala Accredited to: Honduras El Salvador		Raj Kumar Singh	September 2025	EOI, Guatemala
Jamaica Accredited to: The Bahamas Turks and Caicos Islands Cayman Islands British Virgin Islands		Mayank Joshi	June 2024	HCI, Kingston
Mexico		Dr. Pankaj Sharma	February 2022	EOI, Mexico City
Trinidad and Tobago		Pradeep Rajpurohit	October 2023	HCI, Port of Spain
United States	List	Vinay Mohan Kwatra	August 2024	EOI, Washington, D.C.

South America

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites	Refs
Argentina Accredited to: Uruguay		Ajaneesh Kumar	August 2025	EOI, Buenos Aires	^[10]
Bolivia		Rohitkumar R. Vadhwana	March 2025	EOI, La Paz
Brazil	List	Dinesh Bhatia	June 2025	EOI, Brasilia
Chile		Abhilasha Joshi	June 2024	EOI, Santiago
Colombia		Vinod J. Bahade	May 2026	EOI, Bogota
Guyana		Vacant	September 2023	HCI, Georgetown
Paraguay		Piyush Singh	August 2025	EOI, Asuncion
Peru	List	Vishvas Vidu Sapkal	June 2023	EOI, Lima
Suriname Accredited to: Barbados Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		Subhash Prasad Gupta	2024 07	EOI, Paramaribo
Venezuela		Ashok Babu	2023 11	EOI, Caracas

Oceania

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites	Refs
Australia Accredited to: Nauru	List	Nagesh Singh	December 2025	HCI, Canberra	^[11]^[12]
Fiji Accredited to: Nauru Tuvalu Cook Islands		Suneet Mehta	December 2024	HCI, Suva
New Zealand Accredited to: Niue Samoa Cook Islands Vanuatu		Muanpuii Saiawi	April 2026	HCI, Wellington
Papua New Guinea Accredited to: Solomon Islands		Rajeev Kumar	April 2026	HCI, Port Moresby

Honorary consuls

Host country	High Commissioner / Ambassador	Refs
Antigua & Barbuda	Amit Telang
Aruba
Barbados
Belize	Shamim Aktar
Benin
Chad	Abhay Thakur	^[13]
Comoros	Abhay Kumar	28 May 2019 ^[b]
Costa Rica	Upendra Singh Rawat	3 December 2019-12-03 ^[c]
Dominican Republic
Estonia	Radha Venkataraman	17 May 2019
Ecuador	Sanjiv Ranjan^[d]	2019 09 02
El Salvador
Gabon	Nina Tshering La	^[e]^[14]
Gambia	G. V. Srinivas	2019 10 24^[f]
Georgia	Kishan Dan Dewal^[g]	2019 10 11
Guinea (with Cape Verde)	G. V. Srinivas	2019 09 23 ^[h]
Haiti
Honduras
Liberia	Y. K. Sailas Thangal
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Mauritania
Montenegro	Jaideep Mazumdar ^[15]
Netherlands Antilles
Nicaragua (with Panama)	Upendra Singh Rawat	2019 10 18^[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	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]
Caribbean Community	Georgetown, Guyana	Amit Telang	December 2023
European Union^[EU]	Brussels	Pranay Verma	26 May 2026
United Nations	New York City	Parvathaneni Harish (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations)	September 1, 2024	^[17]
United Nations	Geneva	Arindam Bagchi	January 2024 (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in Geneva)	^[18]^[19]
UNESCO	Paris	Vishal V. Sharma	October 2020	^[20]
World Trade Organisation	Geneva	Brajendra Navneet	29 June, 2021	^[21]
ASEAN	Jakarta	Jayant N. Khobragade	20 January 2021	^[22]
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 2019 10 22
↑ 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.
↑ "Ms. Smita Pant appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 26 December 2023.
↑ "Operationalization of New resident Mission of India in Tirana, Albania". mea.gov.in. MEA. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
↑ "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 Ashok Kumar appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. December 5, 2024.
↑ "Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
↑ "Shri Ajit Gupte appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
↑ "Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
↑ "Ajaneesh Kumar appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Argentina". January 29, 2025.
↑ "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.
↑ "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.
↑ "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

[3] 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 2019 10 22

[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.

[4] "Ms. Smita Pant appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 26 December 2023.

[5] "Operationalization of New resident Mission of India in Tirana, Albania". mea.gov.in. MEA. Retrieved 28 March 2025.

[6] "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.

[7] "Shri Ashok Kumar appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. December 5, 2024.

[8] "Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.

[9] "Shri Ajit Gupte appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 5 December 2024.

[10] "Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.

[11] "Ajaneesh Kumar appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Argentina". January 29, 2025.

[12] "Shri Gopal Baglay appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. September 13, 2023.

[13] "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.

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

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

[28] 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.

[29] "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.

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

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

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