List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India

Last updated December 21, 2025

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		Rajesh Ranjan	November 2022	EOI, Abidjaan
Djibouti		Ramachandran Chandramouli	June 2021	EOI, Djibouti
Egypt Accredited to: Arab League		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		Prakash Chand	January 2023	HCI, Asmara
Ethiopia Accredited to: African Union		Anil Kumar Rai	February 2024	EOI, Addis Ababa
Ghana		Manish Gupta	July 2023	HCI, Accra
Guinea		Avtar Singh	January 2023	EOI, Conakry
Kenya	List	Namgya C. Khampa	July 2023	HCI, Nairobi
Liberia		Manoj Bihari Verma	January 2025	EOI, Monrovia
Libya		Ngulkham Jathom Gangte	October 2021
Madagascar	List	B Wilson Babu	November 2022	EOI, Antanarivo
Malawi		S. Gopalakrishnan	January 2021	HCI, Lilongwe
Mali		Dr.N.Nandakumar	November 2019	EOI, Bamako
Mauritania		Naresh Kumar	May 2024	EOI, Nouackchott
Mauritius		K. Nandini Singla	October 2020	HCI, Port Louis
Morocco		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 The ECOWAS		Abhishek Singh	October 2025	HCI, Abuja
Senegal		Dinkar Asthana	2022 08	EOI, Dakar
Seychelles		Kartik Pande	2022 11	HCI, Victoria-Mahe
South Africa Accredited to: Lesotho		Prabhat Kumar	2023 08	HCI, Pretoria
Sudan		Vacant		EOI, Khartoum
Tanzania	List	Bishwadip Dey	2024 06	HCI, Dar Es Salaam
Tunisia		Ngulkham Jathom Gangte	2021 08	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		EOI, Kabul
Bahrain		Vinod K Jacob	August 2023	EOI, Bahrain
Bangladesh	List	Pranay Kumar Verma	July 2022	HCI, Dhaka
Bhutan	List	Sudhakar Dalela	August 2022	EOI, Thimpu
Brunei Darussalam		Alok Amitabh Dimri	March 2022	HCI, Brunei
Cambodia		Devyani Khobragade	September 2020	EOI, Phonm Penh
China	List	Pradeep Kumar Rawat	December 2021	EOI, Beijing
Indonesia		Sandeep Chakravorty	August 2023	EOI, Jakarta
Iran		Rudra Gaurav Shreshth	May 2023	EOI, Tehran
Iraq		Prashant Pise	August 2021	EOI, Baghdad
Israel	List	JP Singh	October 2019	EOI, Tel Aviv
Japan		Sibi George	September 2022	EOI, Tokyo
Jordan		Manish Chauhan		EOI, Amman
North Korea		Aliawati Longkumer	June 2025
South Korea		Gourangalal Das	September 2025	EOI, Seoul
Kuwait		Adarsh Swaika	October 2022	EOI, Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan		Birender Singh Yadav	December 2024	EOI, Bishkek
Lebanon		Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh	June 2023	EOI, Beirut
Malaysia		B. Nagabhushana Reddy	August 2021	HCI, Kuala Lumpur
Maldives		Munu Mahawar	October 2021	HCI, Male
Mongolia		Atul Malhari Gotsurve	March 2024	EOI, Ulaanbaatar
Myanmar		Abhay Thakur	April 2024	EOI, Yangon
Nepal		Naveen Srivastava	June 2022	EOI, Kathmandu
Oman		Godavarthi Venkata Srinivas	March 2025	EOI, Muscat
Pakistan	List	Vacant since August 2019 Geetika Srivastava, chargé d'affaires		HCI, Islamabad
Philippines Accredited to: Palau Federated States of Micronesia		Harsh Kumar Jain	2024 05	EOI, Manila
Qatar		Vipul	2023 08	EOI, Doha
Saudi Arabia		Suhel Ajaz Khan^[3]	2023 01	EOI, Riyadh
Singapore		Shilpak Ambule	June 2023	HCI, Singapore
Sri Lanka		Santosh Jha	2023 12	HCI, Colombo
Tajikistan		Rajesh Uike	2024 03	EOI, Dushanbe
Thailand		Nagesh Singh	2022 08	EOI, Bangkok
Turkmenistan		Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat	2024 01	EOI, Ashgabat
United Arab Emirates	List	Sunjay Sudhir	2021 11	EOI, Abu Dhabi
Uzbekistan		Smita Pant^[4]	December 2023	EOI, Tashkent
Vietnam		Sandeep Arya	2022 10	EOI, Hanoi
Yemen		Suhel Ajaz Khan	2024 06	EOI, Sana'a

Europe

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites	Refs
Albania		Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal	January 2025	EOI, Tirana	^[5]
Armenia		Nilakshi Saha Sinha	March 2023	EOI, Yerevan	^[6]
Austria		Shambu S. Kumaran	April 2024	EOI, Vienna
Azerbaijan		Mr. Sridharan Madhusudhanan		EOI, Baku
Belarus		Ashok Kumar	December 2024	EOI, Minsk	^[7]
Belgium Accredited to: European Union Luxembourg		Saurabh Kumar	November 2023	EOI, Brussels
Bulgaria		Sanjay Rana	March 2021	EOI, Sofia
Croatia		Arun Goel	September 2024	EOI, Zagreb
Cyprus		Mr Manish	May 2024	HCI, Nicosia
Czech Republic		Hemant H. Kotalwar	September 2020	EOI, Prague
Denmark		Manish Prabhat	April 2024	EOI, Copenhegen
Estonia		Ashish Kumar Sinha	April 2025	EOI, Tallinn
Finland		Raveesh Kumar	July 2020	EOI, Helsinki
France Accredited to: Monaco	List	Jawed Ashraf	July 2020	EOI, Paris	^[8]
Germany	List	Ajit Gupte	October 2024	EOI, Berlin	^[9]
Greece	List	Rudrendra Tandon	March 2023	EOI, Athens
Hungary Accredited to: Bosnia and Herzegovina		Partha Sathpathy	November 2021	EOI, Budapest
Iceland		B. Shyam	July 2021	EOI, Reykjavik	^[10]
Ireland		Akhilesh Mishra	August 2021	EOI, Dublin
Italy		Vani Rao	April 2024	EOI, Rome
Kazakhstan		Nagendra Prasad	June 2023	EOI, Astana
Latvia		Namrata S Kumar	January 2025	EOI, Riga
Lithuania		Devesh Uttam	July 2023	EOI, Vilnius
Malta		Gloria Gangte	February 2021	HCI, Malta
Netherlands		Mr Kumar Tuhin	June 2024	EOI, Hague
Norway		Gloria Gangte		EOI, Oslo
Poland		Nagma Mohammad Mallick	2021 07	EOI, Warsaw
Portugal		Manish Chauhan	2021 01	EOI, Lisbon
Romania Accredited to: Moldova		Manoj Kumar Mohapatra	July 2025	EOI, Bucharest
Russia	List	Vinay Kumar	March 2024	EOI, Moscow
Serbia		Shubhdarshini Tripathi	2023 09	EOI, Belgrade
Slovak Republic		Apoorva Srivastava	2022 10	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	2025 06	EOI, Stockholm
Switzerland Accredited To: Liechtenstein	List	Mridul Kumar	2023 06	EOI, Berne
Turkey		Shri Muktesh K. Pardeshi	November 2024	EOI, Ankara
Ukraine		Ravi Shankar	2024 05	EOI, Kyiv
United Kingdom	List	Vikram Doraiswami	2022 09	HCI, London

North America

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites
Canada		Sanjay Kumar Verma	June 2022	HCI, Ottawa
Cuba		T. Armstrong Changsan	March 2024	EOI, Havana
Guatemala Accredited to: Honduras El Salvador		Raj Kumar Singh	September 2025	EOI, Guatemala
Jamaica		R. Masakui	September 2020	HCI, Kingston
Mexico		Pankaj Sharma	February 2022	EOI, Mexico City
Trinidad and Tobago		Pradeep Rajpurohit	2023 10	HCI, Port of Spain
United States	List	Vinay Mohan Kwatra	2024 07	EOI, Washington, D.C.

South America

Host country	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites	Refs
Argentina Accredited to: Uruguay	Ajaneesh Kumar	January 2025	EOI, Buenos Aires	^[11]
Bolivia	Rohitkumar R. Vadhwana	September 2024
Brazil	Suresh Reddy	September 2020	EOI, Brasilia
Chile	Abhilasha Joshi	March 2024	EOI, Santiago
Colombia	Vanlalhuma	September 2022	EOI, Bogota
Guyana	Amit Telang	September 2023	HCI, Georgetown
Paraguay	Yogeshwar Sangwan	2022 02	EOI, Asuncion
Peru	Vishvas Vidu Sapkal	2022 07	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	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites	Refs
Australia Accredited to: Nauru	Gopal Bagalay	January 2024	HCI, Canberra	^[12]^[13]
Fiji Accredited to: Nauru Tuvalu Cook Islands	P. S. Karthigeyan	July 2021	HCI, Suva
New Zealand Accredited to: Niue Samoa Cook Islands Vanuatu	Neeta Bhushan	September 2022	HCI, Wellington
Papua New Guinea Accredited to: Solomon Islands	Inbasekar Sundaramurthy	2021 06	HCI, Port Moresby

Honorary consuls

Host country	High Commissioner / Ambassador	Refs
Antigua & Barbuda	Amit Telang
Aruba
Barbados
Belize	Shamim Aktar
Benin
Chad	Abhay Thakur	^[14]
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]^[15]
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 ^[16]
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	^[17]
Caribbean Community	Georgetown, Guyana	Amit Telang	December 2023
European Union ^[EU]	Brussels	Santosh Jha	17 July 2020	^[18]
United Nations	New York City	Parvathaneni Harish (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations)	September 2024	^[19]
United Nations	Geneva	Arindam Bagchi	2024	^[20]^[21]
UNESCO	Paris	Vishal V. Sharma	October 2020	^[22]
World Trade Organisation	Geneva	Brajendra Navneet	29 June, 2021	^[23]
ASEAN	Jakarta	Jayant N. Khobragade	20 January 2021	^[24]
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.
↑ ANI (2023-01-17). "Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
↑ "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.
↑ "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.

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[3] Along with Chad

[16] tional charge with Madagascar

[17] tional charge with Nicaragua and Panama

[18] tional charge with Colombia

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

[21] tional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde

[22] tional charge with Armenia

[23] tional charge on 2019 10 22

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

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

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

[7] "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.

[8] "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.

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

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

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

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

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

[14] "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-15] "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

[NTL-20] "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

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

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

[27] "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.

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

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

[30] 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.

[31] "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.

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

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

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v t e Ambassadors and high commissioners of India
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