T. S. Tirumurti has been appointed as the next Ambassador or Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations.
Tirumurti is an IFS officer of 1985 batch. He is CURRENTLY the Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. He replaces Sayyad Akbaruddin.
“TS Tirumurti (IFS:1985), presently Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed the next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York,” said the MEA in a release.
Tirumurti will be replacing Syed Akbaruddin, who held the post since January 2016 and is now retiring.
Meanwhile, Namrata S Kumar, Joint Secretary in MEA, has been appointed the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Slovenia.
Jaideep Mazumdar, the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Philippines, has been appointed the next Ambassador of India to Austria.
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