Riva Ganguly Das

Riva Ganguly Das
Secretary (East) Ministry of External Affairs
In office
13 August 2020 – 31 December 2021
High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh
In office
1 March 2019 – 12 August 2020
Preceded byHarsh Vardhan Shringla
Succeeded byVikram Doraiswami
Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations[2]
In office
25 July 2017[1] – 1 March 2019
Preceded byAmarendra Khatua[3]
Succeeded byAkhilesh Mishra
Consul General of India, New York
In office
March 2016 – July 2017
Preceded byDnyaneshwar Mulay
Succeeded bySandeep Chakravorty
Indian Ambassador to Romania, Albania and Moldova
In office
March 2015[4] – March 2016
Succeeded byDr. A V S Ramesh Chandra[5][6]
Personal details
Born (1961-12-24) 24 December 1961 (age 62)[7]
NationalityIndian
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Delhi
OccupationIFS
ProfessionCivil Servant

Riva Ganguly Das (born 24 December 1961[7]) is a retired Indian civil servant who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service cadre. She is the former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh and former Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, an autonomous organisation of the Government of India.

Personal life

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Riva Ganguly Das spent her childhood in New Delhi. She obtained a postgraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Delhi in 1984. She later taught Political Science at the University of Delhi. She married in 1988 and has two children: a daughter and a son.[citation needed]

Career

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She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986.[7] Her first posting abroad was in Spain,[2] where she learnt Spanish at Madrid.[citation needed] Thereafter, she worked at the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in New Delhi handling External Publicity, Nepal and the Passport & Visa matters.[2] She also headed the Cultural Wing of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.[2] Subsequently, she served as the Director of the United Nations Economic and Social Affairs (UNES) Division at the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in New Delhi.[8] In this capacity, she was a part of negotiations relating to environmental issues, particularly climate change.[2]

Riva Ganguly Das was the Deputy chief of mission at the Indian Embassy in The Hague and the Alternate Permanent Representative of India to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague.[8] She also functioned as the Regional Passport Officer in Jaipur.[citation needed] From 2008 to 2012, she was the Consul General of India in Shanghai.[8]

Later, she was the Head of the Public Diplomacy Division at the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi.[9][8] She also headed the Latin America & Caribbean Division at the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi.[8][10] In March 2015, Riva Ganguly Das was appointed the Indian Ambassador to Romania.[11] In October 2015, she was concurrently accredited as the Indian Ambassador to Albania and Moldova, with residence in Bucharest (Romania).[4] From March 2016 to July 2017, she served as the Consul General of India in New York.[12]

Ganguly Das speaking at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in June 2023

In March 2019, she was appointed as the High commissioners of India to Bangladesh.[13] In August 2020, She was appointed as the Secretary (East) of MEA and served their till December 2021.[14][15]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Ms. Riva Ganguly Das, IFS, takes over as new director general of I.C.C.R" (PDF). Elderly News. August 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Bio Profile of Director General, ICCR - Indian Council for Cultural Relations - Government of India". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "LIST OF FORMER DIRECTOR GENERALS OF ICCR - Indian Council for Cultural Relations - Government of India". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ a b "Riva Ganguly Das appointed as the next ambassador of India to the Republic of Albania and the Republic of Moldova". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ "Dr Chandra appointed as Ambassdor to Romania - Indian Mandarins is Exclusive News, Views and Analysis News portal on Indian bureaucracy, governance, PSUs and Corporate". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ "A V S Ramesh Chandra appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ a b c "Archived copy" (PDF). mea.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 April 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ a b c d e "Riva Ganguly Das « India Conference". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ "Organogram of the Ministry of External Affairs" (PDF). 19 March 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 March 2018.
  10. ^ "Organogram of the Ministry of External Affairs" (PDF). 19 March 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 March 2018.
  11. ^ "Riva Ganguly Das appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  12. ^ "Welcome to Consulate General of India, New York (USA)". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  13. ^ "Riva Ganguly Das appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Bangladesh". Ministry of External Affairs. 20 December 2018.
  14. ^ Langa, Mahesh (23 July 2020). "Riva Ganguly Das appointed next Secretary (East) in External Affairs Ministry". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  15. ^ "India's envoy to Myanmar Saurabh Kumar appointed as Secretary in MEA".
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