The government has appointed Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra as the next Foreign Secretary, to take over later this month. Mr. Kwatra’s appointment was announced just after a visit by Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba who held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. He is set to take over the position on April 30, the day present Foreign Secretary Harshvardhan Shringla retires, the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet said.
A 1988–batch officer, Mr. Kwatra has earlier served as Ambassador to France (2017–2020), Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing and was Minister (Commerce) at the Embassy in Washington, DC. He has worked at the MEA headquarters on the policy planning desk, Joint Secretary (Americas) and represented India at the SAARC Secretariat in Nepal as head of the Trade Bureau, according to details available on the Embassy in Kathmandu’s website.
