Government appoints Vinay Mohan Kwatra as new foreign secretary

India’s envoy to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra was on Monday, April 4, appointed as the new foreign secretary, succeeding Harsh Vardhan Shringla who will retire at the end of this month, a personnel ministry order said. Mr Kwatra is currently serving as India’s envoy to Nepal, from March 2020.

He will replace current foreign secretary, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who will superannuate on April 30, 2022. Kwatra is a 1988-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, having more than 32 years of experience in the foreign service. He has also worked in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office (PMO) from 2015 to 2017, as well as India’s ambassador to France from August 2017 to February 2020.