Ruchira Kamboj, new Indian permanent rep to UN |
Senior diplomat Ruchira Kamboj was on June 21st appointed India`s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York. Kamboj, a 1987-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is presently serving as India`s envoy to Bhutan. She will succeed T S Tirumurti as the Indian ambassador to the UN. Kamboj is expected to take up the assignment shortly, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a brief statement. Kamboj was the all-India women`s topper of the 1987 Civil Services batch and the topper of the foreign service batch of that year. She began her diplomatic journey to Paris in France where she was posted as the Third Secretary in the Indian Embassy in France from 1989-1991. From Paris, she returned to Delhi where she worked as an undersecretary in the Europe West Division of the Ministry of External Affairs from 1991-96. From 1996-1999, she served in Mauritius as First Secretary (Economic and Commercial) and Head of Chancery at the Indian High Commission in Port Louis.
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