The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is a diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vikram Misri is the 35th and the current Foreign Secretary.
Shamma Jain is an Indian senior diplomat who served as the Indian ambassador to Greece from June 2017 up to October 2019. She has also served as the ambassador of India to Panama,Costa Rica,Nicaragua,Ivory Coast,Liberia,Sierra Leone and Guinea from 2008 to 2011. Aside from serving as an ambassador,Jain has worked in other diplomatic positions,including as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Rome,political counsellor in the United States,and at the permanent delegation of India to UNESCO in Paris.
Jayant Prasad is a former Indian civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as the Director General of the Delhi-based Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses,a think-tank affiliated with the Indian Ministry of Defence between September 2015 and September 2018.
Ruchira Kamboj is a retired Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1987 batch,who last served as India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2022 to May 2024 until her retirement. She has previously served as High Commissioner of India to South Africa,first female Indian Ambassador to Bhutan and Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO,Paris.
Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired civil servant of 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011,as well as being India's Ambassador to the United States,China and Sri Lanka during her career.
Balkrishna Shetty is a retired Indian diplomat who served as India's Ambassador to Sweden,Latvia,Bahrain,Senegal and Mali
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar better known as S. Jaishankar is an Indian diplomat and politician,who is the thirtieth Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 31 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has been a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018. He is the second diplomat to be appointed India's External Affairs minister,after Natwar Singh.
Nagma Mohamed Mallick is an Indian civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service. She holds the rank of Secretary/Grade I of the government. She is currently ambassador of India to the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Lithuania since 2021. On 29 June 2015 she was appointed as the High Commissioner of India to Brunei Darussalam. Before this posting,she served as India's Ambassador to Tunisia October 2012 to November 2015. She was a TV and stage actress,and acted in India's first television soap opera,Hum Log.
Vijay Keshav Gokhale IFS,born 24 January 1959,is a retired Indian diplomat and the 32nd Foreign Secretary of India. Gokhale previously served as the Ambassador of India to China.
Raveesh Kumar is an Indian diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service of 1995 batch. Currently,he is an Indian ambassador to the Czech Republic. Previously,he served as Indian ambassador to Finland also accredited to Estonia,residing in Helsinki. He was the former official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in the Government of India. He was the youngest ever official spokesperson. He was the Consul General of India in Frankfurt,Germany before being appointed as the spokesperson of the MEA.
Riva Ganguly Das is a retired Indian civil servant who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service cadre. She is the former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh and former Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations,an autonomous organisation of the Government of India.
Reenat Sandhu is a retired Indian diplomat and former ambassador of India to the Netherlands. She had previously served as Secretary West in the Ministry of External Affairs and as the Indian Ambassador to Italy and San Marino.
Harsh Vardhan Shringla is Chief Coordinator for India’s G20 Presidency in 2023. He has previously served as Foreign Secretary of India and India's Ambassador to the United States,High Commissioner to Bangladesh,and Ambassador to Thailand.
Manjeev Singh Puri is a retired Indian civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service cadre and the former Ambassador of India to Nepal.
Anurag Srivastava is an Indian civil servant who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service cadre. He served as spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs,India.
Sibi George is an Indian civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service cadre who is Ambassador of India to Japan. He has previously served as Ambassador of India to Kuwait,Switzerland,the Holy See as well as the Principality of Liechtenstein. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1993.
Vikram Misri is an Indian diplomat. He currently serves as the 35th Foreign Secretary of India,having taken over from Vinay Mohan Kwatra in July 2024. Previously,he served as the Deputy National Security Advisor of India from 1 January 2022,succeeding Pankaj Saran till 14 July 2024. Whereas,he has served as the ambassador of India to China from January 2019 to December 2021.
Satinder Kumar Lambah,also known as Sati Lambah,was an Indian civil servant of 1964 batch of Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as the Prime Minister of India's Special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan between 2005 and 2014. He is also known for building a Strategic partnership agreement with Russia when he was an envoy in Moscow between 1998 and 2001.
