List of ambassadors of India to the United States

The Indian Ambassador to the United States is the main representative of India to the United States. They live in the embassy of India in Washington, D.C.

Ambassador of India to the United States
Incumbent Navtej Singh Sarna since September 2016
Nominator	Pranab Mukherjee
Formation	1947
First holder	Asaf Ali
Website	Embassy of India, Washington D.C., United States

List of Indian Ambassadors to the United States

Name	Photo	Entered office	Left office	Notes
Asaf Ali		1947	1948
Benegal Rama Rau		1948	1949	4th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit		1949	1951	First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly (1953)
Binay Ranjan Sen		1951	1952	Director General of Food and Agriculture Organization (1956–67)
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta		1952	1958
M. C. Chagla		1958	1961
Braj Kumar Nehru		1961	1968
Ali Yavar Jung		1968	1970
Lakshmi Kant Jha		1970	1973	8th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
T. N. Kaul		1973	1976
Kewal Singh		1976	1977
Nanabhoy Palkhivala		1977	1979
K. R. Narayanan		1980	1984	10th President of India
K. Shankar Bajpai		1984	1986
P. K. Kaul		1986	1989
Karan Singh		1989	1990	Titular Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir
Abid Hussain		1990	1992
Siddhartha Shankar Ray		1992	1996
Naresh Chandra		1996	2001
Lalit Mansingh		2001	2004
Ronen Sen		2004	2009
Meera Shankar		2009	2011
Nirupama Rao		2011	2013
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar		2013	28 January 2015
Arun Kumar Singh		2015	2016
Navtej Sarna		2016

References

• India Ambassador, Official page Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine indianembassy.org
• Embassay of India, Washington DC-Ambassadors of India to the United States

Other websites

• India Ambassador, Official page Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine at Embassy of India, Washington, D.C.
• Ministry of External Affairs, Official website