New Delhi: Senior IFS officers Gopal Baglay has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia.
A 1992-batch officer of Indian Foreign Service, Baglay is presently serving as High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka.
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He is expected to take up the new assignment shortly.
Baglay has held many key positions including spokesperson of the MEA and Deputy High Commissioner of India to Pakistan.
He had also handled the sensitive PAI (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran) division in the MEA.