Ruchira Kamboj is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1987 batch, who currently serves as India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since August 2022. She has previously served as High Commissioner of India to South Africa, first female Indian Ambassador to Bhutan and Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO, Paris. She was the All-India women's topper of the 1987 Civil Services batch and the topper of the 1987 Foreign Service batch.
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Cover photo of the Competition Success Review, August 1987. Featuring Ruchira Kamboj (née Patni), the all-India women's topper, Civil Services.
Ruchira Kamboj, Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO, 2018
Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj at the French Senate, 2015.
The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It is the diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vinay Mohan Kwatra is the 34th and the current Foreign Secretary.
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South Block The HQ of Ministry of External Affairs, Prime Minister's Office and Defence Ministry in New Delhi
The U.S. President Barack Obama and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with their diplomats in an expanded bilateral meeting at Hyderabad House, New Delhi, 2015.
Nirupama Rao, the then Indian Ambassador to the U.S., in a meeting with Hillary Clinton, the then U.S. Secretary of State, in Washington, D.C., 2012
