Senior Diplomat Ruchira Kamboj Appointed As Next Permanent Representative Of India To UN

Ruchira Kamboj has also served as Counsellor at India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York between 2002-2005.

1987-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Ruchira Kamboj. (File Photo/ ANI)

Senior diplomat and a 1987-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Ruchira Kamboj was on Tuesday appointed India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York. Khamboj is currently serving as India's envoy to Bhutan and will now succeed TS Tirumurti as the Indian ambassador to the UN.

According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Kamboj is expected to take up the assignment shortly. Kamboj is the first female Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Ruchira Kamboj appointed as the next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York.

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Ruchira Kamboj has also served as Counsellor at India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York between 2002-2005. During this stinct, she handleded political issues, including UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council reform, the Middle East crisis etc.

Between 2006-2009, she was India's Consul General in Cape Town, South Africa.

Kamboj was India women's topper of the 1987 Civil Services batch and the topper of the 1987 Foreign Service batch.

Kamboj's diplomatic career began with being appointed as the hird Secretary in the Indian Embassy in France from 1989-1991. From 1991–96, she she worked as Under Secretary in the Europe West Division of India's Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi. 

Kamboj has also served as the First Secretary Mauritius from 1996-1999 and appointed as director-in-charge of Foreign Service Personnel and Cadre in the Ministry of External Affairs till 2002.