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SMT. RIVA GANGULY DAS

Secretary (East)
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India

Smt. Riva Ganguly Das joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986. She is a Post
Graduate in Political Science from Delhi University. Prior to joining the Foreign
Service, she was a Lecturer at Delhi University. Her first posting was in Spain.
Thereafter, she was at Headquarters dealing with External Publicity, Nepal
and Passport/Visa work. She was Head of the Cultural Wing of the Indian High
Commission in Dhaka. After her return from Dhaka, she took over as Director
at the United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Division and participated in
environmental negotiations, particularly climate change. She was the Deputy
Chief of Mission in the Embassy of India, The Hague. She was also the Alternate
Permanent Representative of India to the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons at The Hague. She served as Consul General of India in Shanghai from
2008 to 2012. After her return from China, she headed the Public Diplomacy
Division and later the Latin America & Caribbean Division in the Ministry of
External Affairs. She was Ambassador of India to Romania with concurrent
accreditation to Albania & Moldova and thereafter served as India’s Consul General
in New York.
Ms. Das most recently served as High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh.
Before joining as HC Dhaka, she was Director General, Indian Council for Cultural
Relations (ICCR). She speaks Bengali, Hindi, English and Spanish.

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