Riva Ganguly Das

Riva Ganguly Das
Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations[1]
Assumed office
25 July 2017[2]
Preceded by Amarendra Khatua[3]
Consul General of India, New York
In office
March 2016 – July 2017
Preceded by Dnyaneshwar Mulay
Succeeded by Sandeep Chakravorty
Indian Ambassador to Romania, Albania and Moldova
In office
March 2015[4] – March 2016
Succeeded by Dr. A V S Ramesh Chandra[5][6]
Personal details
Born (1961-12-24) 24 December 1961[7]
Nationality Indian
Children 2
Alma mater University of Delhi
Occupation Diplomat IFS

Riva Ganguly Das; born 24 December 1961[8] is an Indian diplomat who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service. She is the incumbent Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, an autonomous organisation of the Government of India.

Personal life

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.[9]

Career

She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986.[10] Her first posting abroad was in Spain,[1] where she learnt Spanish at Madrid.[9] Thereafter, she worked at the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in New Delhi handling External Publicity, Nepal and the Passport & Visa matters.[1] She also headed the Cultural Wing of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.[1] 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.[11] In this capacity, she was a part of negotiations relating to environmental issues, particularly climate change.[1]

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.[11] She also functioned as the Regional Passport Officer in Jaipur.[9] From 2008 to 2012, she was the Consul General of India in Shanghai.[11]

Later, she was the Head of the Public Diplomacy Division at the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India,New Delhi.[12][11] She also headed the Latin America & Caribbean Division at the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India,New Delhi.[11][13] In March 2015, Riva Ganguly Das was appointed the Indian Ambassador to Romania.[14] 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.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "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.
  2. ↑ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
  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.
  4. 1 2 "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.
  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.
  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.
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180422070724/https://mea.gov.in/writereaddata/images/Civi_List_27-7-12.pdf
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180422070724/https://mea.gov.in/writereaddata/images/Civi_List_27-7-12.pdf
  9. 1 2 3 "Sharing a life abroad - Global Times". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180422070724/https://mea.gov.in/writereaddata/images/Civi_List_27-7-12.pdf
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 "Riva Ganguly Das « India Conference". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
  13. ↑ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
  14. ↑ "Riva Ganguly Das appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
  15. ↑ "Welcome to Consulate General of India, New York (USA)". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
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