List of Ambassadors and High Commissioners of India

This is a list of ambassadors and high commissioners of India to individual sovereign nations of the world, states with limited recognition, and to international organizations. High Commissioners represent 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
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Ambassadors and High Commissioners
Host CountryListAmbassador/High CommissionerTook officeWebsitesRefs
 Afghanistan Rudrendra tondonSeptember 2020 EOI, Kabul
 AlgeriaGaurav AhluwaliaAugust 2020 EOI, ALgiers
 Angola Pratibha ParkarDecember 2020 EOI, Angola
 Argentina (along with  Paraguay &  Uruguay[lower-alpha 1]) Dinesh BhatiaAugust 2019 EOI, Buenos Aires
 Armenia Kishan Dan DewalAugust 2019 EOI, Yerevan
 Australia Anumula Gitesh Sarma7 October 2019 HCI, Canberra[1]
 Austria Jaideep Mazumdar2019 EOI, Vienna
 Azerbaijan B. Vanlalvawna28 December 2018 EOI, Baku
 Bahrain Piyush SrivastavaFebruary 2020 EOI, Baharain
 BangladeshListVikram Doraiswami12 August 2020 HCI, Dhaka[2]
 Belarus Sangeeta Bahadur EOI, Minsk
 Belgium Santosh Jha17 July 2020 Official Website[3]
 BhutanList Ruchira KambojApril 2019 EOI, Thimpu
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Kumar Tuhin14 May 2019
 Botswana Rajesh RanjanJuly 2017 HCI, Gaborone
 Brazil Suresh ReddySeptember 2020 EOI, Brasilia
 Brunei Darussalam Ajaneesh Kumar15 January 2019 HCI, Brunei
 Bulgaria Pooja Kapoor EOI, Sofia
 Cambodia Devyani Uttam Khobragade
 CanadaAjay Bisaria1 March 2020 Official Website [4]
 Chile Anita Nayar
 China List Vikram Misri7 January 2019
 Colombia Sanjiv Ranjan2 February 2019
 Congo [lower-alpha 2] Nina Tshering La[5] 1 March 2019
 Croatia Arindam Bagchi
 Cuba Tsewang Namgyal
 Cyprus Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat2 August 2019
 Czech Republic Hemant Kotalwar
 Denmark Ajit Gupte
 DR Congo Ghoturam Meena8 August 2019
 Egypt Rahul Kulshreshth
 Eritrea Subhash Chand May 2019
 Fiji (with  Nauru,  Tuvalu,  Cook Islands) M. S. Padmaja15 March 2019 [lower-alpha 3]
 Finland Raveesh Kumar17 July 2020
 France Jawed Ashraf
 Germany List Mukta Dutta Tomar [6]
 Ghana C Sugandha Rajaram6 December 2019
 Greece List Amrit Lugun 3 October 2019
 Guatemala Sajeev Babu Kurup
 Guinea T C Barupal
 Guyana K J Srinivasa
 HondurasB. S. Mubarak1 February 2019
 Hungary Kumar Tuhin November 2018
 Iceland T. Armstrong Changsan
 Indonesia Nengcha Lhouvum
 Iran Gaddam Dharmendra
 Iraq Birendra Singh Yadav 25 October 2019[7]
 Ireland Sandeep Kumar
 Israel Pavan Kapoor
 Italy Reenat Sandhu July 2017
 Ivory Coast (along with  Liberia) Sailas Thangal September 2018
 Jamaica Sevala Naik Mude
 Japan Sanjay Kumar Verma
 Jordan Anil Trigunayat
 Kazakhstan Harsh K Jain
 Kenya Virander Kumar Paul
 Korea Atul M. Gotsurve
 Kuwait Sibi George 4 August 2020
 Kyrgyzstan L. Savithri
 Lebanon Suhel Ajaz Khan
 Lesotho Jaideep Sarkar 5 September 2019
 Libya Azar A. H. Khan
 Madagascar List Abhay Kumar January 2019
 Malawi
 Malaysia Shri Mridul Kumar 15 February 2018
 Maldives Sunjay Sudhir15 February 2019Official Website
 Mali Anjani Kumar7 November 2019
 Malta Rajesh Vaishnaw 01 November 2017
 Mauritius Abhay Thakur
 Mexico (with  Niue,  Samoa) Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi 3 and 25 October 2019[lower-alpha 4]
 Mongolia Dr. T. Suresh Babu
 Morocco
 Mozambique VACANT
 Myanmar Vikram Misri
 Namibia Prashant Aggarwal
   Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwarta 30 January 2020[8]
 Netherlands Venu Rajamony
 New Zealand Muktesh Kumar Pardesi May 2019
 Niger Rajesh Agrawal
 Nigeria[lower-alpha 5] Abhay Thakur[9] 1 March 2019
 Norway B. Bala Bhaskar September 2019
 Oman Munu Mahawar 21 August 2018
 Pakistan List Vacant
 Papua New Guinea Dr. A.M. Gondane
 Peru Krishna R Urs
 Philippines Shambhu S. Kumaran [10] 10 June 2020
 Poland Tswang Namgymal
 Portugal K. Nandini Singla
 Qatar Sanjiv Arora
 RomaniaRahul ShrivastavaJuly 2020Official Website[11]
 Russia List D.B. Venkatesh Varma
 Saudi Arabia Ausaf Sayeed[12] 8 March 2019
 Senegal G.V. Srinivas August, 2019
 Serbia Subrata Bhattacharji April 2018
 Seychelles Dalbir Singh Suhag[13] 25 April 2019
 Singapore Jawed Ashraf
 Slovak Republic Param Jit Mann
 Slovenia Sarvajit Chakravarti
 South Africa Jaideep Sarkar April 2019
 Sudan Ravindra Jaiswal
 Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay1 February 2020hcicolombo.gov.in [14]
 Sudan Mr. Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal
 Suriname Mahender Singh Kanyal
 Sweden &  Latvia
  Switzerland &  Liechtenstein Monika Kapil Mohta August 2020
 Tajikistan Somnath Ghosh
 Tanzania List Sanjiv Kohli
 Thailand Suchitra Durai
 Trinidad and Tobago (with  Grenada) Arun Kumar Sahuadditional charge}}
 Tunisia Prashant Pise
 Turkey Sanjay Kumar Panda3 March 2020
 Turkmenistan Dr. T.V. Nagendra Prasad
 Ukraine Manoj Kumar Bharti
 United Arab Emirates List Pavan Kapoor [15] 28 August 2019
 United Kingdom List Gaitri Issar Kumar3 June 2020Official Website [16]
 United States List Taranjit Singh Sandhu[17] 28 January 2020
 Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat[18] 10 August 2020
 Venezuela Rahul Shrivastava [19] 2016
 Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma[20] 1 March 2019
 Yemen Amrit Lugun
 Zambia Gaddam Dharmendra
 Zimbabwe R. Masakui Official Website

Honorary Consuls
Host Country High Commissioner Took office
 Albania
 Aruba
 Barbados
 BelizeManpreet Vohra7 June 2019
 Benin
 Bolivia
 Burkina Faso
 Cameroon
 Central African Republic
 ChadAbhay Thakur[9]
 ComorosAbhay Kumar28 May 2019 [lower-alpha 6]
 Costa RicaUpendra Singh Rawat3 December 2019 [lower-alpha 7]
 Dominican Republic
 EstoniaRadha Venkataraman17 May 2019
 EcuadorSanjiv Ranjan[lower-alpha 8]2 September 2019
 El Salvador
 GabonNina Tshering La[lower-alpha 9][5]
 GambiaG. V Srinivas24 October 2019 [lower-alpha 10]
 GeorgiaKishan Dan Dewal[lower-alpha 11]11 October 2019
 Guinea (with  Cape Verde)G. V Srinivas23 September 2019 [lower-alpha 12]
 Haiti
 Honduras
 Liberia
 Lithuania
 Luxembourg
 Mauritania
 MontenegroJaideep Mazumdar [21]
 Netherlands Antilles
 Nicaragua (with  Panama)Upendra Singh Rawat 18 October 2019 [lower-alpha 13]
 North Macedonia
 ParaguayHigh Commissioner of Argentina
 Réunion
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
 Saint Lucia
 Sierra Leone
 TogoM. S. Padmaja13 November 2019

Permanent representatives to international organizations
Host organization Location Permanent Representative Took office Ref.
Conference on Disarmament Geneva Gaurav Sobti [22]
 United Nations New York City T. S. Tirumurti (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) April 2020 [23]
Geneva Ajit Kumar [24][25]
UNESCO Paris Vishal V. Sharma October 2020 [26]
World Trade Organization Geneva Mr. J.S. Deepak, [27]
ASEAN Jakarta Jayant N. Khobragade 20 January 2021 [28]

Notes
  1. took charge on 10 July 2019
  2. along with Gabon
  3. additional charge on 15 May, 13 June and 23 August 2019 respectively
  4. additional charge of Niue and Samoa respectively
  5. Along with Chad
  6. additional charge with Madagascar
  7. additional charge with Nicaragua and Panama
  8. additional charge with Colombia
  9. additional charge along with Democratic Republic of the Congo
  10. additional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde
  11. additional charge with Armenia
  12. additional charge on 22 October 2019
  13. additional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019

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. "Santosh Jha appointed as next Ambassador of India to Belgium". ANI News. ANI News. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  4. "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.
  5. "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  6. "mukta-tomar-appointed-next-ambassador-to-germany". 2017-04-07.
  7. "Shri Birender Singh Yadav has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iraq". MEA. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  8. "Vinay Mohan Kwatra Appointed India's Next Envoy to Nepal". News18.com. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  9. "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  10. "Shri Shambhu S. Kumaran has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Philippines". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  11. "Shri Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". www.mea.gov.in. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  12. "Ausaf Sayeed appointed new Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia". newsonair. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  13. "Ex-army chief Dalbir Singh Suhag appointed India high commissioner to Seychelles". livemint. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  14. "Gopal Baglay appointed Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. PTI. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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  16. "Gaitri Issar Kumar takes over as Indian high commissioner to the UK". Hindustan Times. 5 July 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  17. "Taranjit Singh Sandhu appointed India's Ambassador to US". The Hindu. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  18. "Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 10 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  19. "Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela". meaindia.gov.in.
  20. "verma-named-indias-next-ambassador-to-vietnam". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  21. "Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  22. "Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill". meaindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  23. "India's New UN Envoy Meets His Pakistani Counterpart". ndtv.com. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
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  25. 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.
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  28. "Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat". Hindustan Times. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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