Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations


The Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations is India's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Nations. The permanent Representative is the head of the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York City.
The current Permanent Representative of India to UN is T. S. Tirumurti, who was appointed in April 2020.

List

This is a list of Indian Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
NamePortraitEntered officeLeft officeNotes
Samarendranath SenSeptember 1946March 1947India's Liaison Officer to the newly established UN
Dr. Padmanabha P. PillaiJuly 19471948
Sir Benegal N. RauMarch 19481952Also Representative to the UN Security Council
Rajeshwar Dayal1952August 1954
Arthur S. LallSeptember 1954December 1959
Chandra Shekhar JhaJanuary 1959July 1962
B. N. ChakrvarthyAugust 1962July 1965
G. ParthasarathyAugust 1965December 1968
Samar SenJanuary 1969July 1974
Rikhi JaipalJuly 1974May 1979
Brajesh C. MishraJune 1979March 1981
Natarajan KrishnanApril 1981September 1986
C.R. GharekhanOctober 1986December 1992
Mohammad Hamid AnsariJanuary 1993January 1995Also served as Vice President of India from 2007 to 2017
Prakash ShahFebruary 1995July 1997
Kamalesh SharmaAugust 1997May 2002
V. K. NambiarMay 2002May 2004
Nirupam SenSeptember 2004March 2009
Hardeep Singh PuriMay 2009February 2013Currently serving as Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and as Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India
Asoke Kumar MukerjiApril 2013December 2015
Syed AkbaruddinJanuary 2016April 2020
T. S. Tirumurti29 April 2020Present