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 countryListAmbassador/High CommissionerTook officeWebsitesRefs
 Afghanistan Rudendra TandonJune 2022 EOI, Kabul
 AlgeriaListGaurav AhluwaliaAugust 2020 EOI, ALgiers
 Angola List Pratham katariaDecember 2020 EOI, Angola
 Argentina
Accredited to:
 Dinesh BhatiaAugust 2019 EOI, Buenos Aires
 Armenia Nilakshi SahaApril 2023 EOI, Yerevan
 Australia
Accredited to:
 Manpreet Vohra1 March 2021 HCI, Canberra[1]
 Austria Jaideep Mazumdar2019 EOI, Vienna
 Azerbaijan Sridharan MadhusudanMay 2023 EOI, Baku
 Bahrain Piyush SrivastavaFebruary 2020 EOI, Baharain
 BangladeshListPranay Verma (Ambassador Designate)July 2022 HCI, Dhaka[2]
 Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha18 May 2021 EOI, Minsk[3]
 Belgium Santosh Jha17 July 2020 Official Website[4]
 BhutanList Sudhakar DalelaApril 2019 EOI, Thimpu
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Partha Sathpathy EOI, Hungary and Bosnia & Herzegovina
 Botswana Bharath Kumar KuthatiJuly 2023 HCI, Gaborone
 Brazil Suresh ReddySeptember 2020 EOI, Brasilia
 Brunei Darussalam Ajaneesh Kumar15 January 2019 HCI, Brunei
 Bulgaria Sanjay Rana10 February 2021 EOI, Sofia
 Burkina Faso Vijay Singh Chauhan24 March 2019 EOI, Ougadougou
 Cambodia Devyani KhobragadeSeptember 2020 EOI, Phonm Penh
 Cameroon Rakesh Malhotra HCI, Yaounde
 Canada Sanjay Kumar VermaJune 2022 HCI, Ottawa [5]
 Chile Subrata Bhattacharjee28 May 2021 EOI, Santiago[6]
 ChinaList Pradeep Kumar Rawat7 January 2019 EOI, Beijing
 Colombia Vanna Luma2022 EOI, Bogota
 DR Congo
Accredited to:
 Ram Karan Verma18 November 2020 EOI, Kinshasa
 Congo, Republic of Ghotu Ram Meena8 August 2019 EOI, Brazzavile
 Cote D'Ivoire
Accredited to:
 Y. K. Sailas ThangalSeptember 2018 EOI, Abidjaan
 Croatia Rajkumar Shrivastava12 June 2020 EOI, Zagreb
 Cuba S. Janakiraman EOI, Havana
 Cyprus Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat11 November 2019 HCI, Nicosia
 Czech Republic Hemant H. Kotalwar EOI, Prague
 Denmark Pooja Kapoor10 February 2021 EOI, Copenhegen
 Djibouti Ashok KumarApril 2019 EOI, Djibouti
 Egypt Ajit Vinayak Gupte10 February 2021 EOI, Cairo
 Equatorial Guinea Man Mohan BhanotApril 2019 EOI, Malabo
 Eswatini Radha Venkataraman13 August 2019 HCI, Mbabane
 Eritrea Subhash Chand May 2019
 Ethiopia[lower-alpha 1] Robert ShetkintongOctober 2020 EOI, Addis Ababa
 Fiji
Accredited to:
 P. S. Karthigeyan8 July 2021 HCI, Suva
 Finland Raveesh Kumar17 July 2020 EOI, Helsinki
 France
Accredited to:
 List Jawed Ashraf13 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
 HondurasB. S. Mubarak1 February 2019
 Hungary Partha Sathpathy
 Iceland B. Shyam31 July 2021 EOI, Reykjavik[10]
 Indonesia Sandeep ChakravortyAugust 2023 EOI, Jakarta
 Iran Rudra Gaurav Shreshth
 Iraq Prashant Pise August 2021
 Ireland Akhilesh Mishra5 August 2021 EOI, Dublin
 Israel Sanjeev Singla
 Italy Neena Malhotra
 Jamaica R. Masakui
 Japan Sibi George
 Jordan Anwar Haleem
 Kazakhstan Subhadarshini Tripathi10 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 Yadav24 May 2021 [ EOI, Monoriva][11]
 Libya Vacant
 Madagascar List Wilson Babu January 2019
 Malawi S. Gopalakrishnan
 Malaysia B. Nagabhushana Reddy10 August 2021 HCI, Kuala Lumpur
 Maldives Munu Mahawar (High CommissionerOctober, 2021Official Website
 Mali Anjani Kumar7 November 2019
 Malta Gloria Gangte10 February 2021
 Mauritius K. Nandini Singla
 Mexico (with  Niue,  Samoa) Mridul Kumar
 Mongolia T. Suresh Babu
 Morocco Rajesh Vaishnaw
 Mozambique Ankan Banerjee10 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] Balasubramaniam Abhay Thakur[13] 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 [14] 10 June 2020
 Poland Nagma Mohammad Mallick9 July 2021 EOI, Warshaw
 Portugal Manish Chauhan
 Qatar Deepak Mittal29 April 2020 EOi, Doha
 RomaniaListRahul Shrivastava5 June 2020Official Website[15]
 Russia List Pawan Kapoor
 Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz Khan[16] 16 January 2023 EOI, Riyadh
 Senegal Dinkar Asthana August, 2022
 Serbia Sanjiv Kohli3 June 2021 EOI, Belgrade[17]
 Seychelles Dalbir Singh Suhag[18] 25 April 2019
 Singapore Shilpak Ambule [19]
 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 Baglay1 February 2020hcicolombo.gov.in [20]
 Sudan Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal
 Suriname Shankar Bala Chandran
 Sweden &  Latvia Tanmaya Lal
  Switzerland &  Liechtenstein List Vani Rao
 Tajikistan JP Singh
 TanzaniaList Binaya Srikanta Pradhan20 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 [21] 28 August 2019
 United Kingdom List Vikram Doraiswami (High Commissioner Designate)Official Website [22]
 United States List Taranjit Singh Sandhu[23] 28 January 2020
 Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat[24] 10 August 2020
 Venezuela Abhishek Singh 2016
 Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma[25] 1 March 2019
 Yemen -Vacant-
 Zambia Ashok Kumar
 Zimbabwe Vijay Khanduja Official Website

Honorary consuls
Host countryHigh Commissioner / AmbassadorRefs
 Albania
 Moldova		concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest.
 Aruba
 Barbados
 BelizeShamim Aktar
 Benin
 BoliviaT. N. Mayyas
 Central African RepublicConcurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo
 ChadAbhay Thakur[13]
 ComorosAbhay Kumar28 May 2019 [lower-alpha 4]
 Costa RicaUpendra Singh Rawat3 December 2019 [lower-alpha 5]
 Dominican Republic
 EstoniaRadha Venkataraman17 May 2019
 EcuadorSanjiv Ranjan[lower-alpha 6]2 September 2019
 El Salvador
 GabonNina Tshering La[lower-alpha 7][26]
 GambiaG. V. Srinivas24 October 2019 [lower-alpha 8]
 GeorgiaKishan Dan Dewal[lower-alpha 9]11 October 2019
 Guinea (with  Cape Verde)G. V. Srinivas23 September 2019 [lower-alpha 10]
 Haiti
 Honduras
 LiberiaY. K. Sailas Thangal
 Lithuania
 Luxembourg
 Mauritania
 MontenegroJaideep Mazumdar [27]
 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 GrenadinesJunior Bacchus
 Saint Lucia
 Sierra Leone
 TogoM. S. Padmaja13 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 [28]
 European Union[EU]BrusselsSantosh Jha17 July 2020[29]
 United Nations New York City Ruchira Kamboj (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) 1 July 2022 [30]
Geneva Indramani Pandey October 2020 [31][32]
 UNESCO Paris Vishal V. Sharma October 2020 [33]
 World Trade Organisation Geneva Brajendra Navneet 29 June, 2021 [34]
 ASEAN Jakarta Jayant N. Khobragade 20 January 2021 [35]
 African Union[AU]Addis AbabaRobert ShetkintongMarch 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

References
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  2. "Diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami appointed India's next envoy to Bangladesh". Hindustan Times. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. "Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  4. "Santosh Jha appointed as next Ambassador of India to Belgium". ANI News. ANI News. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. "Ajay Bisaria appointed India's next High Commissioner to Canada | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  6. "Shri Subrata Bhattacharjee appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Chile". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  7. "Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  8. "Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
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  10. "Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  11. "Pradip Kumar Yadav appointed as next ambassador of India to Liberia". ANI News. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  12. "Naveen Srivastava appointed as India's ambassador to Nepal". BusinessToday.In. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
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