List of ambassadors of India to the United States
List of Indian Ambassadors to the United States

List of ambassadors of India to the United States

Section Title: List of Indian Ambassadors to the United States
Table Section Text: None

Name	Photo	Entered office	Left office	Notes

Asaf Ali	-	1947	1948	Lawyer and former Governor of Odisha.

Benegal Rama Rau	-	1948	1949	4th Governor of Reserve Bank of India.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	-	1949	1951	First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly (1953)

Binay Ranjan Sen	1951	1952	Director General of Food and Agriculture Organization (1956–67)

Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta	1952	1958

M. C. Chagla	1958	1961	Eminent lawyer

Braj Kumar Nehru	1961	1968	ICS officer, Governor of seven different states. Also served as Economic Affairs Secretary.

Ali Yavar Jung	1968	1970	Governor of Maharashtra, VC of AMU, VC of Osmania univ.

Lakshmi Kant Jha	1970	1973	ICS, Secy Industries, Commerce, Finance, Secy to the PM,8th Governor of Reserve Bank of India,Governor of J&K

T. N. Kaul	1973	1976	ICS, former Foreign Secretary.

Kewal Singh	1976	1977	ICS, former Foreign Secretary.

Nanabhoy Palkhivala	1977	1979	Eminent lawyer

K. R. Narayanan	-	1980	1984	10th President of India

K. Shankar Bajpai	1984	1986

P. K. Kaul	1986	1989	IAS officer, former Cabinet Secretary of India. Also served as Finance Secretary, Defence Secretary and Commerce Secretary.

Karan Singh	-	1989	1990	Titular Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir

Abid Hussain	-	1990	1992	IAS officer, former Commerce Secretary.

Siddhartha Shankar Ray	1992	1996	Minister of Education, Chief Minister of West Bengal

Naresh Chandra	-	1996	2001	IAS officer, former Cabinet Secretary of India. Also served as Home Secretary, Defence Secretary and Finance Secretary.

Lalit Mansingh	-	2001	2004	IFS officer, former Foreign Secretary and Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Ronen Sen	-	2004	2009	IFS officer.

Meera Shankar	-	2009	2011	IFS officer.

Nirupama Rao	-	2011	2013	IFS officer, former Foreign Secretary.

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	-	2013	28 January 2015	IFS officer, former Foreign Secretary.

Arun Kumar Singh	-	2015	2016	IFS officer.

Navtej Sarna	-	2016	20 December 2018	IFS officer

Harsh Vardhan Shringla	11 January 2019	Incumbent	IFS officer

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P. K. Kaul was the Indian Ambassador to the United States from 1986 to 1989.

final_sentence: P. K. Kaul was the Indian Ambassador to the United States from 1986 to 1989.