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[edit]

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Ambassadors and High Commissioners[edit]

Host Country	List	Ambassador/High Commissioner	Took office	Websites	Refs
Afghanistan		Rudrendra Tandon	September 2020	EOI, Kabul
Algeria	List	Gaurav Ahluwalia	August 2020	EOI, ALgiers
Angola	List	Pratibha Parkar	December 2020	EOI, Angola
Argentina		Dinesh Bhatia	August 2019	EOI, Buenos Aires
Armenia		Kishan Dan Dewal	August 2019	EOI, Yerevan
Australia		Manpreet Vohra	1 March 2021	HCI, Canberra	[1]
Austria		Jaideep Mazumdar	2019	EOI, Vienna
Azerbaijan		B. Vanlalvawna	28 December 2018	EOI, Baku
Bahrain		Piyush Srivastava	February 2020	EOI, Baharain
Bangladesh	List	Pranay Verma (Ambassador Designate)	July 2022	HCI, Dhaka	[2]
Belarus		Alok Ranjan Jha	18 May 2021	EOI, Minsk	[3]
Belgium		Santosh Jha	17 July 2020	Official Website	[4]
Bhutan	List	Sudhakar Dalela	April 2019	EOI, Thimpu
Bosnia and Herzegovina		Partha Sathpathy		EOI, Hungary and Bosnia & Herzegovina
Botswana		Rajesh Ranjan	July 2017	HCI, Gaborone
Brazil		Suresh Reddy	September 2020	EOI, Brasilia
Brunei Darussalam		Ajaneesh Kumar	15 January 2019	HCI, Brunei
Bulgaria		Sanjay Rana	10 February 2021	EOI, Sofia
Burkina Faso		Vijay Singh Chauhan	24 March 2019	EOI, Ougadougou
Cambodia		Devyani Khobragade	September 2020	EOI, Phonm Penh
Cameroon		Rakesh Malhotra		HCI, Yaounde
Canada		Manish	June 2022	HCI, Ottawa	[5]
Chile		Subrata Bhattacharjee	28 May 2021	EOI, Santiago	[6]
China	List	Pradeep Kumar Rawat	7 January 2019	EOI, Beijing
Colombia		Sanjiv Ranjan	1 September 2019	EOI, Bogota
DR Congo		Ram Karan Verma	18 November 2020	EOI, Kinshasa
Congo, Republic of		Ghotu Ram Meena	8 August 2019	EOI, Brazzavile
Cote D’Ivoire		Y. K. Sailas Thangal	September 2018	EOI, Abidjaan
Croatia		Rajkumar Shrivastava	12 June 2020	EOI, Zagreb
Cuba		S. Janakiraman		EOI, Havana
Cyprus		Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat	11 November 2019	HCI, Nicosia
Czech Republic		Hemant H. Kotalwar		EOI, Prague
Denmark		Pooja Kapoor	10 February 2021	EOI, Copenhegen
Djibouti		Ashok Kumar	April 2019	EOI, Djibouti
Egypt		Ajit Vinayak Gupte	10 February 2021	EOI, Cairo
Equatorial Guinea		Man Mohan Bhanot	April 2019	EOI, Malabo
Eswatini		Radha Venkataraman	13 August 2019	HCI, Mbabane
Eritrea		Subhash Chand	May 2019
Ethiopia[a]		Robert Shetkintong	October 2020	EOI, Addis Ababa
Fiji		P. S. Karthigeyan	8 July 2021	HCI, Suva
Finland		Raveesh Kumar	17 July 2020	EOI, Helsinki
France	List	Jawed Ashraf	13 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	Amrit Lugun	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
Honduras		B. S. Mubarak	1 February 2019
Hungary		Partha Sathpathy
Iceland		B. Shyam	31 July 2021	EOI, Reykjavik	[10]
Indonesia		Basir Ahmed (Chargé d’affaires a.i.)
Iran		Gaddam Dharmendra
Iraq		Prashant Pise	August 2021
Ireland		Akhilesh Mishra	5 August 2021	EOI, Dublin
Israel		Sanjeev Singla
Italy		Neena Malhotra
Jamaica		R. Masakui
Japan		Sanjay Kumar Verma
Jordan		Anwar Haleem
Kazakhstan		Subhadarshini Tripathi	10 February 2021
Kenya	List
North Korea
Korea		Sripriya Ranganathan
Kuwait		Adarsh Swaika
Kyrgyzstan		A. K. Chatterjee
Lebanon		Vacant
Lesotho		Jaideep Sarkar	5 September 2019
Liberia		Pradip Kumar Yadav	24 May 2021	[ EOI, Monoriva]	[11]
Libya		Vacant
Madagascar	List	Abhay Kumar	January 2019
Malawi		S. Gopalakrishnan
Malaysia		B. Nagabhushana Reddy	10 August 2021	HCI, Kuala Lumpur
Maldives		Munu Mahawar (High Commissioner-designate)	October, 2021	Official Website
Mali		Anjani Kumar	7 November 2019
Malta		Gloria Gangte	10 February 2021
Mauritius		K. Nandini Singla
Mexico (with  Niue,  Samoa)		Vacant
Mongolia		T. Suresh Babu
Morocco		Rajesh Vaishnaw
Mozambique		Ankan Banerjee	10 February 2021
Myanmar		Vinay Kumar	24 February 2022	EOI Yangon
Namibia		Prashant Aggarwal
Nepal		Naveen Srivastava	17 May 2022[12]
Netherlands		Pradeep Kumar Rawat
New Zealand		Muktesh Kumar Pardesi	May 2019
Niger		Rajesh Agrawal
Nigeria[b]		Abhay Thakur[13]	1 March 2019
Norway		B. Bala Bhaskar	September 2019
Oman		Amit Narang	21 August 2018
Pakistan	List	M. Suresh Kumar (Chargé d’Affaires a.i.)
Papua New Guinea		A. M. Gondane
Paraguay		Yogeshwar Sangwan	5 February 2022	EOI, Asuncion
Peru		Krishna R. Urs
Philippines		Shambhu S. Kumaran [14]	10 June 2020
Poland		Nagma Mohammad Mallick	9 July 2021	EOI, Warshaw
Portugal		Manish Chauhan
Qatar		Deepak Mittal	29 April 2020	EOi, Doha
Romania	List	Rahul Shrivastava	5 June 2020	Official Website	[15]
Russia	List	Pawan Kapoor
Saudi Arabia		Suhel Ajaz Khan[16]	16 January 2023	EOI, Riyadh
Senegal		G. V. Srinivas	August, 2019
Serbia		Sanjiv Kohli	3 June 2021	EOI, Belgrade	[17]
Seychelles		Dalbir Singh Suhag[18]	25 April 2019
Singapore		P. Kumaran	29 July 2020		[19]
Slovak Republic		Apoorva Srivastava	15 October 2022	eoibratislava.gov.in
Slovenia		Sarvajit Chakravarti
South Africa		Jaideep Sarkar	April 2019
Sudan		B. S. Mubarak
Sri Lanka		Gopal Baglay	1 February 2020	hcicolombo.gov.in	[20]
Sudan		Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal
Suriname		Shankar Bala Chandran
Sweden &  Latvia		Tanmaya Lal
Switzerland &  Liechtenstein	List	Sanjay Bhattacharya	August 2020
Tajikistan		Viraj Singh
Tanzania	List	Binaya Srikanta Pradhan	20 July 2021	Dar Es Salaam
Thailand		Suchitra Durai
Trinidad and Tobago (with  Grenada)		Arun Kumar Sahu	22 October 2019[c]
Tunisia		N. J. Gangte
Turkey		Sanjay Kumar Panda	3 March 2020
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		Vacant
Zimbabwe		Vijay Khanduja		Official Website

Honorary Consuls[edit]

Permanent representatives to international organizations[edit]

• ^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.

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