The Government of India has appointed Ms Neeta Bhushan as the next as the next High Commissioner of India to New Zealand.
This was announced in a press release from the office of India's Ministry of External Affairs a shortwhile ago.
She is expected to take charge at the Wellington-based Indian High Commission shortly.
Ms Bhushan, a 1994 batch officer of India's elite Indian Foreign Sevices (IFS), is currently posted as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs and has held numerous key positions and assignments overseas, including being India's Consul General at Chicago (United States of America) from 2017 to 2019.
As a career diplomat, her overseas assignments have included political and information work in Tokyo (Japan), Head of the Press, Culture and Information Wing in Dhaka (Bangladesh), and Head of the Economic and Commercial Wing in the Indian Embassy in Berlin (Germany). She also worked as Director in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance and as Joint Secretary (Parliament & Coordination) in the Ministry of External Affairs.
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