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2018. 08 - 2022.08
Ms Sripriya Ranganathan is a career diplomat who joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1994, immediately after obtaining her Masters’ Degree in History, with specialisation in Modern Indian History, from Delhi University.
Ms Ranganathan has served in Myanmar as the second in command at Embassy of India, Yangon. Her other overseas postings were in Ankara and Hong Kong.Ms Ranganathan has extensive experience in headquarters, having served in various capacities in the Ministry of External Affairs as well as in the Department of Commerce and Industry. In the Ministry of External Affairs, Ms Ranganathan has served in the Administration, Europe West and Disarmament & International Security Affairs Divisions. She has earlier served as Joint Secretary (Director General) of the SAARC Division and, most recently of the Bangladesh and Myanmar Division.In the course of her secondment to the Department of Commerce, Ms Ranganathan served in the Export Promotion (Agricultural Products & the Trade Policy Divisions).Ms Ranganathan speaks Tamil, Hindi and English and has some knowledge of Turkish. Her interests include reading, travelling, yoga and music.Ms Ranganathan is married to Mukund Santhanam, a banker. They have one daughter.
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2015. 04. 13 - 2018. 07. 25
Mr Vikram K Doraiswami, joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1992. Prior to joining the Indian Government, he worked for one year as a journalist. He took a Masters’ Degree in History from the University of Delhi.
After his in-service training in New Delhi from 1992-1993, Mr Doraiswami was posted to the Commission of India in Hong Kong in May 1994 as Third Secretary. He learnt Chinese, taking an elective diploma in that language at the New Asia Yale-in-Asia language school of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He served in the Embassy of India in Beijing from 1996 for nearly four years.
Upon returning to the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi in 2000, Mr Doraiswami was appointed Deputy Chief of Protocol (Ceremonials). After two years as Deputy Chief of Protocol, Mr Doraiswami was seconded to the Prime Minister’s Office in 2002. He later served as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India.
In 2006, Mr Doraiswami was posted to the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York as Political Counsellor and in October 2009 he served as India's Consul General in Johannesburg, South Africa.
In July 2011, Mr Doraiswami returned to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi, where he was given charge as the Head of the Division for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), a post he held upto early October 2012. During this period, he was also Coordinator for the Fourth Summit meeting of BRICS in New Delhi in March 2012.
From October 2012 to October 2014, Mr Doraiswami was Joint Secretary of the Americas Division of the MEA. He arrived at the Embassy of Indian in Tashkent at the end of October 2014 as Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan.
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2012. 01. 12. – 2015. 03. 07H.E Ambassador Vishnu Prakash was appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea in 2012 following the departure of Ambassador Skand R. Tayal.H.E. Ambassador Vishnu Prakash was appointed Consul General of India in Vladivostok. Following this, Ambassador Prakash held the position of Director in India’s External Affairs Ministry.After serving as Consul General in Shanghai (2006 – 2008), He returned to India to serve as Joint Secretary and Official Spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry in New Dehli.
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2008. 09. 16 - 2011. 11. 30H.E Ambassador Skand R. Tayal served as Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea for 3 years starting from 2008. During his tenure, Ambassador Tayal oversaw the establishment of the ICCK in 2010.After Joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1976, Ambassador Tayal served in Indian Missions in Sofia, Warsaw, Geneva and Moscow.After serving as Consul General for India in Johannesburg (1996-1998) and Houston (2002-2005), he served as Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan from 2005 until 2008.