List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India

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

Ambassadors and high commissioners

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:   Uruguay		Dinesh Bhatia	August 2019	EOI, Buenos Aires
Armenia		Nilakshi Saha	April 2023	EOI, Yerevan
Australia Accredited to:   Nauru		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:   Gabon   Central African Republic		Ram Karan Verma	18 November 2020	EOI, Kinshasa
Congo, Republic of		Madan Lal Raigar	20 October 2023	EOI, Brazzavile
Cote D'Ivoire Accredited to:   Liberia		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 [lower-alpha 1]		Robert Shetkintong	October 2020	EOI, Addis Ababa
Fiji Accredited to:   Nauru   Tuvalu   Cook Islands		P. S. Karthigeyan	8 July 2021	HCI, Suva
Finland		Raveesh Kumar	17 July 2020	EOI, Helsinki
France Accredited to:   Monaco	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 [lower-alpha 2]		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 [lower-alpha 3]
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

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 [lower-alpha 4]
Costa Rica	Upendra Singh Rawat	3 December 2019 [lower-alpha 5]
Dominican Republic
Estonia	Radha Venkataraman	17 May 2019
Ecuador	Sanjiv Ranjan [lower-alpha 6]	2 September 2019
El Salvador
Gabon	Nina Tshering La	[lower-alpha 7] [24]
Gambia	G. V. Srinivas	24 October 2019 [lower-alpha 8]
Georgia	Kishan Dan Dewal [lower-alpha 9]	11 October 2019
Guinea (with   Cape Verde)	G. V. Srinivas	23 September 2019 [lower-alpha 10]
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 [lower-alpha 11]
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

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

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

• Foreign relations of India
• List of ambassadors and high commissioners to India
• List of ambassadors of India
• List of diplomatic missions of India
• List of diplomatic missions in India
• Visa policy of India
• Visa requirements for Indian citizens

References

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External links

• List of Indian diplomatic missions - Ministry of External Affairs
• List of Indian Ambassadors to Foreign Countries