
New Delhi: Mr Ranjit Rae, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1980 batch, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Nepal.
Mr Rae, 56, currently India’s Ambassador to Vietnam, is expected to take up his new assignment shortly, an official press release from the Ministry of External Affairs said here yesterday.
He has previously served as Indian Ambassador to Hungary.
He has also served in the Indian mission Kampala and the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York.
He served as Press Secretary to the President from December 1995 to 1997 and was on deputation to the UN mission in Kosovo and Department of Peace Keeping Operations of the UN in New York from February 2000 to August 2002.
At the Ministry’s headquarters, he served as Joint Secretary (Nepal/Bhutan) from October 2002 to January 2006.
He has a post-graduate degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.
(MNN)
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