Ruchi Ghanashyam

Ruchi Ghanashyam
Her Excellency; Ruchi Ghanashyam; IFS
High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom
	In office; November 2018 – June 2020
Preceded by	Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha[1][2]
Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs, India
	In office; 17 April 2017[3] – November 2018[4]
Preceded by	Sujata Mehta[5]
Succeeded by	A. Gitesh Sarma[6][7]
Indian High Commissioner to South Africa[8]
	In office; 28 October 2013[8] – 13 April 2017[8]
Preceded by	Virendra Gupta
Succeeded by	Ruchira Kamboj
Indian High Commissioner to Ghana with concurrent accreditation to Burkina Faso, Togo and Sierra Leone[9]
	In office; 2008[10] – 2011[10]
Preceded by	Rajesh Nandan Prasad
Succeeded by	Rajinder Bhagat
Minister, Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, New York[3]
	In office; May 2004[3] – March 2008[3]
Personal details
Born	4 April 1960[11]
Nationality	Indian
Spouse(s)	Ajjampur Rangaiah Ghanashyam
Alma mater	Bhopal University
Occupation	Indian Foreign Service

Ruchi Ghanashyam; born 4 April 1960[11] is an Indian diplomat who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service.

Personal life

Ruchi Ghanashyam holds a master of arts degree in psychology from Bhopal University.[3] She is married to Ajjampur Rangaiah Ghanashyam, who also belonged to the Indian Foreign Service. They have two sons.[3]

She joined the Indian Foreign Service in August 1982. She was the Third Secretary at the Indian Embassy in Damascus where she learnt Arabic.[4] She has served in Indian missions in Brussels, Kathmandu, Damascus, Islamabad[3] Pretoria[12] and Accra.[5] Ruchi has served at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi as Director (Pakistan) from August 2000 to March 2004.[13] Prior to this, she was the Counsellor (Political, Press & Information) at the Indian High Commission in Pakistan. As an Undersecretary at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, she handled the Audio-Visual Publicity for the Ministry.[3]

Ghanashyam was the first Indian woman diplomat to be posted in Islamabad when the harassment of Indian diplomats was routine.[14]

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