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 Rudrendra TandonSeptember 2020 EOI, Kabul
 AlgeriaGaurav AhluwaliaAugust 2020 EOI, ALgiers
 Angola List Pratibha ParkarDecember 2020 EOI, Angola
 Argentina
Accredited to:
 Dinesh BhatiaAugust 2019 EOI, Buenos Aires
 Armenia Kishan Dan DewalAugust 2019 EOI, Yerevan
 Australia
Accredited to:
 Manpreet Vohra1 March 2021 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 Alok Ranjan Jha18 May 2021 EOI, Minsk[3]
 Belgium Santosh Jha17 July 2020 Official Website[4]
 BhutanList Ruchira KambojApril 2019 EOI, Thimpu
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Kumar Tuhin14 May 2019 EOI, Hungary and Bosnia & Herzegovina
 Botswana Rajesh RanjanJuly 2017 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 Chahuhan24 March 2019 EOI, Ougadougou
 Cambodia Devyani Uttam KhobragadeSeptember 2020 EOI, Phonm Penh
 Cameroon Rakesh Malhotra HCI, Yaounde
 CanadaList Ajay Bisaria1 March 2020 HCI, Ottawa [5]
 Chile Subrata Bhattacharjee28 May 2021 EOI, Santiago[6]
 ChinaList Pradeep Kumar Rawat7 January 2019 EOI, Beijing
 Colombia Sanjiv Ranjan1 September 2019 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:
 Sailas ThangalSeptember 2018 EOI, Abidjaan
 Croatia Rajkumar Shrivastava12 June 2020 EOI, Zagreb
 Cuba Dr. 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 Venkatraman13 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 Rajaram6 December 2019 HCI, Accra
 Greece List Amrit Lugun 3 October 2019 EOI, Athens
 Guatemala B.S. Mubarak December 2018 EOI, Guatemala
 Guinea T. C. Barupal
 Guyana K J Srinivasa[9] 14 August 2019 HCI, Georgetown
 HondurasB. S. Mubarak1 February 2019
 Hungary Kumar Tuhin November 2018
 Iceland B. Shyam31 July 2021 EOI, Reykjavik[10]
 Indonesia Manoj Kumar Bharti
 Iran Gaddam Dharmendra
 Iraq Prashant Pise August 2021
 Ireland Akhilesh Mishra5 August 2021 EOI, Dublin
 Israel Sanjeev Singla
 Italy Reenat Sandhu July 2017
 Jamaica R. Masakui
 Japan Sanjay Kumar Verma
 Jordan Anwar Haleem
 Kazakhstan Subhadarshini Tripthi10 February 2021
 Kenya List Virander Kumar Paul
 North Korea Atul M. Gotsurve
 Korea Sripriya Ranganathan
 Kuwait Sibi George 4 August 2020
 Kyrgyzstan L. Savithri
 Lebanon Suhel Ajaz Khan
 Lesotho Jaideep Sarkar 5 September 2019
 Liberia Pradip Kumar Yadav24 May 2021 [ EOI, Monoriva][11]
 Libya Vacant
 Madagascar List Abhay Kumar January 2019
 Malawi S. Gopalakrishnan
 Malaysia B. Nagabhushana Reddy10 August 2021 HCI, Kuala Lumpur
 Maldives Munu Mahawar (High Commissioner-designate)October, 2021Official Website
 Mali Anjani Kumar7 November 2019
 Malta Sangeeta Bahadur10 February 2021
 Mauritius K. Nandini Singla
 Mexico (with  Niue,  Samoa) Vacant
 Mongolia Dr. T. Suresh Babu
 Morocco Rajesh Vaishnaw
 Mozambique Ankan Banerjee10 February 2021
 Myanmar Saurabh Kumar
 Namibia Prashant Aggarwal
   Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwarta 30 January 2020[12]
 Netherlands Pradeep Kumar Rawat
 New Zealand Muktesh Kumar Pardesi May 2019
 Niger Rajesh Agrawal
 Nigeria[lower-alpha 2] Abhay Thakur[13] 1 March 2019
 Norway B. Bala Bhaskar September 2019
 Oman Munu Mahawar 21 August 2018
 Pakistan List Vacant

Dr. M. Suresh Kumar,

Deputy High Commissioner

(Chargé d’Affaires a.i.)
 Papua New Guinea Dr. A.M. Gondane
 Peru Krishna R Urs
 Philippines Shambhu S. Kumaran [14] 10 June 2020
 Poland Nagma Mohammad Mallick9 July 2021 EOI, Warshaw
 Portugal K. Nandini Singla
 Qatar Deepak Mittal29 April 2020 EOi, Doha
 RomaniaRahul Shrivastava5 June 2020Official Website[15]
 Russia List Pawan Kapoor
 Saudi Arabia List Vacant[16] 8 March 2019
 Senegal G. V. Srinivas August, 2019
 Serbia Sanjiv Kohli3 June 2021 EOI, Belgrade[17]
 Seychelles Dalbir Singh Suhag[18] 25 April 2019
 Singapore P Kumaran 29 July 2020 [19]
 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 [20]
 Sudan Mr. Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal
 Suriname Shankar Bala Chandran
 Sweden &  Latvia Tanmaya Lal
  Switzerland &  Liechtenstein Monika Kapil Mohta August 2020
 Tajikistan Viraj Singh
 TanzaniaList Binaya Shrikanta Praadhaan20 July 2021 Dar Es Salaam
 Thailand Suchitra Durai
 Trinidad and Tobago (with  Grenada) Arun Kumar Sahu22 October 2019[lower-alpha 3]
 Tunisia N. J. Gangte
 Turkey Sanjay Kumar Panda3 March 2020
 Turkmenistan Dr. Vidhu P. Nair
 Ukraine Manoj Kumar Bharti
 United Arab Emirates List Pavan Kapoor [21] 28 August 2019
 United Kingdom List Gaitri Issar Kumar3 June 2020Official 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
Host CountryHigh Commissioner / AmbassadorRefs
 Albania
 Moldova		concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest.
 Aruba
 Barbados
 Belize
 Benin
 Bolivia
 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
 ParaguayAmbassador to Argentina
 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 Pankaj Sharma 11 November 2018 [28]
 European Union[EU]BrusselsSantosh Jha17 July 2020[29]
 United Nations New York City T. S. Tirumurti (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) April 2020 [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 African Union.
  • EU – Indian Ambassador appointed to Kingdom of Belgium, with office in Brussels, is also concurrently accredited as the Permanent Representative of India to 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

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.
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  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.
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