Ambassador

Mr. BIRENDER SINGH YADAV

AMBASSADOR

Shri Birender Singh Yadav is a career diplomat belonging to 1997 Batch of Indian Foreign Service. He served as a Senior Directing Staff (Foreign Service) at the National Defence College, New Delhi from July 2021 – January 2025. He has served extensively at the Ministry of External Affairs and at Indian Missions abroad. He has earlier served diplomatic assignments in various capacities in Embassy of India in Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, and Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO and High Commission of India in Sri Lanka. At the Headquarters, he has handled the work related to India's bilateral relations with countries of Gulf region, South East Asia region and West Africa Division. He has been Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iraq from January 2020 to July 2021. He was also High Commissioner of India to Republic of Ghana (October 2016-January 2020) with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador of India to Burkina Faso (October 2016-March 2019), High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and Ambassador to Republic of Togo.

He is an alumni of prestigious National Defence College and was course participant of 55th NDC Course. He also successfully completed UN Disarmament Fellowship in 2006.

He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering. He is fluent in English and Hindi. He is married to Mrs Richa Rao, and they have one daughter and one son.

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