MEA: Sanjay Verma appointed as next high commissioner of India to Canada

Senior diplomat Sanjay Kumar Verma has been appointed as India’s next high commissioner to Canada. He succeeds Acting High Commissioner Anshuman Gaur. Verma is a 1988 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service and is currently the ambassador of India to Japan. He is expected to take up the Canada assignment shortly. Among other postings, Verma has served in Indian missions in Hong Kong, China, Vietnam and Turkey. He has also served as Consul General of India in Milan, Italy.

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Another appointment:

• Amit Kumar, currently Consulate General of India in Chicago, has been named as the next ambassador to the Republic of Korea. Amit Kumar, who joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1995, was earlier the Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of India, Washington DC with Ambassador rank.
• His other recent assignments included stints as Joint Secretary for Development Partnership Administration and as Joint Secretary for Human Resources Management in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. Kumar holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.

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