List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India

Last updated September 05, 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

Host country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Appointed	Websites	Refs
Afghanistan		Vacant^[a]		EOI, Kabul
Albania		Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal	August 2024		^[1]
Algeria	List	Dr. Swati Vijay Kulkarni	April 2024	EOI, Algiers	^[2]
Angola	List	Dr. Vidhu P Nair	February 2024	EOI, Angola	^[3]
Argentina Accredited to: Uruguay		Ajaneesh Kumar	January 2025	EOI, Buenos Aires	^[4]
Armenia		Nilakshi Saha Sinha	March 2023	EOI, Yerevan	^[5]
Australia Accredited to: Nauru		Gopal Bagalay	January 2024	HCI, Canberra	^[6]^[7]
Austria		Shambu S. Kumaran	April 2024	EOI, Vienna
Azerbaijan		Mr. Sridharan Madhusudhanan		EOI, Baku
Bahrain		Vinod K Jacob	August 2023	EOI, Bahrain
Bangladesh	List	Pranay Kumar Verma	July 2022	HCI, Dhaka
Belarus		Ashok Kumar (Ambassador Designate)		EOI, Minsk	^[8]
Belgium Accredited to: European Union Luxembourg		Saurabh Kumar	November 2023	EOI, Brussels
Bhutan	List	Sudhakar Dalela	August 2022	EOI, Thimpu
Bolivia		Rohitkumar R. Vadhwana	2024 09
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		Om Prakash Meena	January 2025	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 2024	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	August 2023	HCI, Mbabane
Eritrea		Prakash Chand	January 2023	HCI, Asmara
Ethiopia Accredited to: African Union		Anil Kumar Rai	February 2024	EOI, Addis Ababa
Fiji Accredited to: Nauru Tuvalu Cook Islands		P. S. Karthigeyan	July 2021	HCI, Suva
Finland		Raveesh Kumar	July 2020	EOI, Helsinki
France Accredited to: Monaco	List	Jawed Ashraf	July 2020	EOI, Paris	^[9]
Germany	List	Vacant		EOI, Berlin	^[10]
Ghana		Manish Gupta	July 2023	HCI, Accra
Greece	List	Rudrendra Tandon	March 2023	EOI, Athens
Guatemala Accredited to: Honduras		Manoj Kumar Mohapatra	December 2021	EOI, Guatemala
Guinea		Avtar Singh	January 2023	EOI, Conakry
Guyana		Amit Telang	September 2023	HCI, Georgetown
Hungary Accredited to: Bosnia and Herzegovina		Partha Sathpathy	November 2021	EOI, Budapest
Iceland		B. Shyam	July 2021	EOI, Reykjavik	^[11]
Indonesia		Sandeep Chakravorty	August 2023	EOI, Jakarta
Iran		Rudra Gaurav Shreshth	May 2023	EOI, Tehran
Iraq		Prashant Pise	August 2021	EOI, Baghdad
Ireland		Akhilesh Mishra	August 2021	EOI, Dublin
Israel	List	JP Singh	October 2019	EOI, Tel Aviv
Italy		Vani Rao	April 2024	EOI, Rome
Jamaica		R. Masakui	September 2020	HCI, Kingston
Japan		Sibi George	September 2022	EOI, Tokyo
Jordan		Anwar Haleem	August 2019	EOI, Amman
Kazakhstan		Nagendra Prasad	June 2023	EOI, Astana
Kenya	List	Namgya C. Khampa	July 2023	HCI, Nairobi
North Korea		Vacant
South Korea		Amit Kumar	September 2022	EOI, Seoul
Kuwait		Adarsh Swaika	October 2022	EOI, Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan		Birender Singh Yadav	December 2024	EOI, Bishkek
Latvia		Namrata Kumar	January 2025
Lebanon		Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh	June 2023	EOI, Beirut
Liberia		Manoj Bihari Verma	January 2025	EOI, Monrovia
Libya		Ngulkham Jathom Gangte	October 2021
Lithuania		Devesh Uttam	July 2023	EOI, Vilnius
Madagascar	List	B Wilson Babu	November 2022	EOI, Antanarivo
Malawi		S. Gopalakrishnan	January 2021	HCI, Lilongwe
Malaysia		B. Nagabhushana Reddy	August 2021	HCI, Kuala Lumpur
Maldives		Munu Mahawar	October 2021	HCI, Male
Mali		Anjani Kumar	November 2019	EOI, Bamako
Malta		Gloria Gangte	February 2021	HCI, Malta
Mauritania		Naresh Kumar	Mauritius		K. Nandini Singla	October 2020	HCI, Port Louis
Mexico		Pankaj Sharma	February 2022	EOI, Mexico City
Mongolia		Atul Malhari Gotsurve	March 2024	EOI, Ulaanbaatar
Morocco		Sanjay Rana	September 2024	EOI, Rabat
Mozambique		Robert Shetkintong	November 2023	HCI, Maputo
Myanmar		Abhay Thakur	April 2024	EOI, Yangon
Namibia		Rahul Shrivastava	November 2024	HCI, Windhoek
Nepal		Naveen Srivastava	2022 05	EOI, Kathmandu
Netherlands		Mrs. Reenat Sandhu	2022 02	EOI, Hague
New Zealand Accredited to: Niue Samoa Cook Islands Vanuatu		Neeta Bhushan	2022 09	HCI, Wellington
Niger		Sita Ram Meena	23 May 2024	EOI, Niamey
Nigeria ^[b] Accredited to: Benin The ECOWAS		G Balasubramaniam	2019 03	HCI, Abuja
Norway		Acquino Vimal	2023 05	EOI, Oslo
Oman		Amit Narang	2021 10	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 06	HCI, Port Moresby
Paraguay		Yogeshwar Sangwan	2022 02	EOI, Asuncion
Peru		Vishvas Vidu Sapkal	2022 07	EOI, Lima
Philippines Accredited to: Palau Federated States of Micronesia		Harsh Kumar Jain	2024 05	EOI, Manila
Poland		Nagma Mohammad Mallick	2021 07	EOI, Warsaw
Portugal		Manish Chauhan	2021 01	EOI, Lisbon
Qatar		Vipul	2023 08	EOI, Doha
Romania Accredited to: Moldova		Manika Jain
Russia	List	Vinay Kumar	2024 03	EOI, Moscow
Saudi Arabia		Suhel Ajaz Khan^[12]	2023 01	EOI, Riyadh
Senegal		Dinkar Asthana	2022 08	EOI, Dakar
Serbia		Shubhdarshini Tripathi	2023 09	EOI, Belgrade
Seychelles		Kartik Pande	2022 11	HCI, Victoria-Mahe
Singapore		Shilpak Ambule	2023 06	HCI, Singapore
Slovak Republic		Apoorva Srivastava	2022 10	EOI, Bratislava
Slovenia		Namrata S Kumar	2020 08	EOI, Ljubljana
South Africa Accredited to: Lesotho		Prabhat Kumar	2023 08	HCI, Pretoria
Spain Accredited to: Andorra		Dinesh K. Patnaik	2021 11
Sri Lanka		Santosh Jha	2023 12	HCI, Colombo
Sudan		Vacant		EOI, Khartoum
Suriname Accredited to: Barbados Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		Subhash Prasad Gupta	2024 07	EOI, Paramaribo
Sweden Accredited To: Latvia		Vacant		EOI, Stockholm
Switzerland Accredited To: Liechtenstein	List	Mridul Kumar	2023 06	EOI, Berne
Tajikistan		Rajesh Uike	2024 03	EOI, Dushanbe
Tanzania	List	Bishwadip Dey		HCI, Dar Es Salaam
Thailand		Nagesh Singh	2022 08	EOI, Bangkok
Trinidad and Tobago		Pradeep Rajpurohit	2023 10	HCI, Port of Spain
Tunisia		Ngulkham Jathom Gangte	2021 08	EOI, Tunis
Turkey		Shri Muktesh K. Pardeshi	November 2024	EOI, Ankara
Turkmenistan		Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat	2024 01	EOI, Ashgabat
Ukraine		Ravi Shankar	2024 05	EOI, Kyiv
United Arab Emirates	List	Sunjay Sudhir	2021 11	EOI, Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom	List	Vikram Doraiswami	2022 09	HCI, London
United States	List	Vinay Mohan Kwatra	2024 07	EOI, Washington, D.C.
Uzbekistan		Manish Prabhat^[13]	2020 08	EOI, Tashkent
Venezuela		Ashok Babu	2023 11	EOI, Caracas
Vietnam		Sandeep Arya	2022 10	EOI, Hanoi
Yemen		Suhel Ajaz Khan	2024 06	EOI, Sana'a
Zambia		Ashok Kumar	2021 06	HCI, Lusaka
Zimbabwe		Vijay Khanduja	2020 11	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	^[14]
Comoros	Abhay Kumar	28 May 2019 ^[c]
Costa Rica	Upendra Singh Rawat	3 December 2019-12-03 ^[d]
Dominican Republic
Estonia	Radha Venkataraman	17 May 2019
Ecuador	Sanjiv Ranjan^[e]	2019 09 02
El Salvador
Gabon	Nina Tshering La	^[f]^[15]
Gambia	G. V. Srinivas	2019 10 24^[g]
Georgia	Kishan Dan Dewal^[h]	2019 10 11
Guinea (with Cape Verde)	G. V. Srinivas	2019 09 23 ^[i]
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^[j]
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

↑ Since Taliban tookover the government
↑ 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

↑ "Operationalization of New resident Mission of India in Tirana, Albania". mea.gov.in. MEA. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
↑ "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.
↑ "Ajaneesh Kumar appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Argentina". January 29, 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 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.

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[1] Since Taliban tookover the government

[13] Along with Chad

[17] tional charge with Madagascar

[18] tional charge with Nicaragua and Panama

[19] tional charge with Colombia

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

[22] tional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde

[23] tional charge with Armenia

[24] tional charge on 2019 10 22

[26] tional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019

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

[3] "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.

[4] "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.

[5] "Ajaneesh Kumar appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Argentina". January 29, 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 Gopal Baglay appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia". Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. September 13, 2023.

[8] "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.

[9] "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.

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

[11] "Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 16 December 2021.

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

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

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

[A_Thakur-16] "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

[NTL-21] "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

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

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

[28] "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.

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

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

[31] 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.

[32] "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.

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

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

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