List of ambassadors and high commissioners of Malaysia

Last updated January 31, 2024

The following is the list of ambassadors and high commissioners of Malaysia . High commissioners represent member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and ambassadors represent other states. Note that some diplomats are accredited by, or to, more than one country.

Current ambassadors of Malaysia

Bold indicates the resident countries of the Malaysian diplomatic missions.

Host country	Appointed^[1]	Location of resident embassy	Ambassador	List
Algeria Tunisia	15 June 2021	Algiers	H.E. Mohammad Faizal Razali	List
Argentina Paraguay Uruguay	15 June 2021	Buenos Aires	H.E. Nur Azman Abdul Rahim	List
Australia	15 June 2021	Canberra	H.E. Dato' Roslan Abdul Rahman (High Commissioner)	List
Austria Slovakia	15 June 2021	Vienna	H.E. Ikram Mohd Ibrahim
Azerbaijan	2019	Baku	H.E. Yubazlan Yusof	List
Bahrain	15 June 2021	Manama	H.E. Shazryll Zahiran	List
Bangladesh	2020	Dhaka	H.E. Haznah Md Hashim (High Commissioner)	List
Belgium Luxembourg	15 June 2021	Brussels	H.E. Dato' Ahmad Rozian Abd Ghani	List
Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro	15 June 2021	Sarajevo	H.E. Raja Saifful Ridzuwan Raja Kamaruddin	List
Brazil Guyana Suriname	2017	Brasilia	H.E. Lim Juay Jin	List
Brunei	15 June 2021	Bandar Seri Begawan	H.E. Raja Dato' Reza Raja Zaib Shah	List
Cambodia	2019	Phnom Penh	H.E. Eldeen Husaini Mohd Hashim	List
Canada	15 June 2021	Ottawa	H.E. Anizan @ Siti Hajjar Adnin (High Commissioner)	List
Chile Ecuador	2020	Santiago	H.E. Abu Bakar Mamat	List
China Mongolia	2019	Beijing	H.E. Raja Nushirwan Zainal Abidin	List
Croatia	15 June 2021	Zagreb	H.E. Kennedy Mayong Onon	List
Cuba Bahamas Dominican Republic Haiti Jamaica Nicaragua	2018	Havana	H.E. Roslan Abdul Rahman	List
Czechia	2017	Prague	H.E. Zanariah Zainal Abidin	List
Egypt Palestine	15 June 2021	Cairo	H.E. Zamani Ismail	List
Fiji Kiribati Nauru Tonga Tuvalu	2018	Suva	H.E. Ilham Tuah Illias (High Commissioner)	List
Finland Estonia Latvia	2019	Helsinki	H.E. John K. Samuel
France Monaco Portugal	15 June 2021	Paris	H.E. Dato' Mohd Zamruni Khalid	List
Germany		Berlin	Mohd Shahafeez Shaharis (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)	List
Ghana Niger São Tomé and Príncipe Togo		Accra	Ron Dlyan Anak Jeffry (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)	List
Guinea Cote d'Ivoire Guinea-Bissau Liberia Sierra Leone		Conakry	Ahmad Irshad Razib (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)
Holy See Albania Malta	2019	Rome	H.E. Westmoreland Edward Palon	List
Hungary North Macedonia Slovenia	15 June 2021	Budapest	H.E. Francisco Munis	List
India Afghanistan	2017	New Delhi	H.E. Hidayat Abdul Hamid (High Commissioner)	List
Indonesia	2021	Jakarta	Adlan Bin Mohd Shaffieq (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)	List
Iran		Tehran	Mohd Nizam Halimi (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)
Ireland	2019	Dublin	H.E. Zakaria Nasir	List
Italy Kosovo San Marino	2017	Rome	H.E. Abdul Malik Melvin Castelino Anthony	List
Japan Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands	2019	Tokyo	H.E. Kennedy Jawan	List
Jordan Iraq	2017	Amman	H.E. Jilid Kuminding	List
Kazakhstan	2017	Astana	H.E. Syed Mohamad Bakri Syed Abd Rahman	List
Kenya Burundi Rwanda South Sudan Tanzania Uganda	2017	Nairobi	H.E. Loh Seck Tiong (High Commissioner)	List
Kuwait	2018	Kuwait City	H.E. Mohammad Ali Selamat	List
Laos	2017	Vientiane	H.E. Mohd Aini Atan	List
Lebanon Cyprus Syria	15 June 2021	Beirut	H.E. Azri Mat Yacob
Mexico Belize Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Costa Rica	2018	Mexico City	H.E. Muzafar Shah Mustafa	List
Morocco Mauritania	2017	Rabat	H.E. Astanah Banu Shri Abdul Aziz	List
Myanmar	2018	Yangon	H.E. Zahairi Baharim	List
Namibia Angola Congo-Brazzaville Congo-Kinshasa	2016	Windhoek	H.E. Hishamuddin Ibrahim (High Commissioner)	List
Nepal		Kathmandu	Mohd Fadzle Abu Hasan (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)	List
Netherlands	15 June 2021	The Hague	H.E. Dato' Nadzirah Osman	List
New Zealand Cook Islands Niue Samoa	2017	Wellington	H.E. Nur Izzah Wong Mee Choo (High Commissioner)	List
Nigeria Benin Cameroon Chad Central African Republic Equatorial Guinea Gabon	2018	Abuja	H.E. Gloria Corina Peter Tiwet (High Commissioner)
Oman Yemen Djibouti	15 June 2021	Muscat	H.E. Shaiful Ahmad Mohammad
Pakistan	2017	Islamabad	H.E. Ikram Mohammad Ibrahim (High Commissioner)	List
Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Vanuatu	2018	Port Moresby	H.E. Mohamad Nasri Abdul Rahman (High Commissioner)	List
Peru Bolivia Colombia Panama	2019	Lima	H.E. Fenny Nuli	List
Philippines Palau	2019	Manila	H.E. Norman Muhamad	List
Poland Lithuania	2018	Warsaw	H.E. Chitra Devi V. Ramiah
Qatar	2020	Doha	H.E. Zamshari Shaharan	List
Romania Bulgaria Greece Moldova	15 June 2021	Bucharest	H.E. Tengku Dato' Sirajuzzaman Tengku Mohamed Ariffin	List
Russia Armenia Belarus	2020	Moscow	H.E. Bala Chandran Tharman	List
Saudi Arabia	2019	Riyadh	H.E. Abd Razak Abdul Wahab	List
Senegal Burkina Faso Cabo Verde Gambia Mali	2017	Dakar	H.E. Dr. Shazelina Zainul Abidin
Serbia		Belgrade	Khairul Tazril Tarmizi (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)	List
Singapore	15 June 2021	Singapore	H.E. Dato' Dr. Azfar Mohamad Mustafar	List
South Africa Botswana Lesotho Madagascar Mozambique Swaziland	2018	Pretoria	H.E. Mohamad Nizan Mohamad (High Commissioner)	List
South Korea		Seoul	Ahmad Fahmi Ahmad Sarkawi (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)
Spain Andorra	2019	Madrid	H.E. Akmal Che Mustafa
Sri Lanka Maldives	2018	Colombo	H.E. Tan Yang Thai (High Commissioner)
Sudan Eritrea Ethiopia Somalia	2018	Khartoum	H.E. Mohamad Razdan Jamil	List
Sweden Denmark Iceland Norway	2019	Stockholm	H.E. Nur Ashikin Mohd. Taib	List
Switzerland	2017	Bern	H.E. Sharrina Abdullah	List
Taiwan	2019	Taipei	Sharon Ho Swee Peng (President of MFTC)	List
Thailand	2017	Bangkok	H.E. Jojie Samuel MC Samuel	List
Timor-Leste	2018	Dili	H.E. Sarimah Akbar	List
Turkey	2020	Ankara	H.E. Sazali Mustafa Kamal	List
Turkmenistan	2016	Ashgabat	H.E. Roseli Abdul
Ukraine Georgia	2018	Kyiv	H.E. Raja Reza Raja Zaib Shah	List
United Arab Emirates		Abu Dhabi	Vacant
United Kingdom	15 June 2021	London	H.E. Zakri Jaafar (High Commissioner)	List
United States	2019	Washington, D.C.	H.E. Azmil Mohd. Zabidi	List
Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan	2018	Tashkent	H.E. Hendy Assan
Venezuela Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Grenada Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago		Caracas	Mohd Raizul Nizam Zulkiffli (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)	List
Vietnam	2019	Hanoi	H.E. Shariffah Norhana Syed Mustaffa
Zimbabwe Comoros Malawi Mauritius Seychelles Zambia		Harare	Tan Tsiu Yin (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)

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List of ambassadors and high commissioners of Malaysia

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Current ambassadors of Malaysia

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