Home: Navdeep Singh Suri appointed as Ambassador to UAE

Mr. Navdeep Singh Suri, presently the High Commissioner of India to Australia, has been appointed as the country's next Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A press release from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Mr. Suri, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1983 batch, was expected to take up the assignment shortly. Before being posted as the High

Commissioner to Australia, Mr. Suri had served as India's Ambassador to Egypt. He has also worked as the Consul General of India in Johannesburg, South Africa and in Indian missions in Damascus, Washington, Dar es Salaam and London.  He has also headed the West Africa and Public Diplomacy divisions at the MEA headquarters here.

Mr. Suri has learnt Arabic and French, has a Masters degree in Economics and has written on India’s Africa policy, on Public Diplomacy and on the IT outsourcing industry. His English translations of his grandfather Nanak Singh’s classic Punjabi novels have been published by Penguin as ‘The Watchmaker’ and by Harper Collins as ‘A Life Incomplete’.