Ruchira Kamboj will succeed TS Tirumurti, who was given a three- month extension in service after his withdrawal in March in view of his crucial part in dealing with the fallout of the Ukraine extremity at the UN Security Council. India is presently in the alternate time of a two- time term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council
India on Tuesday named Ruchira Kamboj, a career diplomat with wide- ranging moxie in multinational organisations, as its coming representative to the United Nations in New York.
Kamboj, presently the ambassador to Bhutan and an officer of the 1987 batch of the Indian Foreign Service, is anticipated to take up the assignment shortly, the external affairs ministry said.
She’ll succeed TS Tirumurti, who was given a three- month extension in service after his withdrawal in March in view of his crucial part in dealing with the fallout of the Ukraine extremity at the UN Security Council. India is presently in the alternate time of a two- time term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.
Kamboj the new UN ambassador
Kamboj was the all India women’s crusher of the 1987 civil services batch and the crusher of the 1987 IFS batch. She has served in colourful capacities in Indian operations in France, Mauritius and South Africa and as the high manager to South Africa during 2017- 19.
She served as under clerk in the Europe West division during 1991- 96, dealing with France, the UK, BENELUX countries, Italy, Spain and Portugal, and also handling the relationship with the Commonwealth.
Kamboj, one of the IFS officers supplanted for the post of foreign clerk before this time, had a stint as counsellor at India’s endless charge to the UN in New York during 2002- 05, dealing with issues similar as UN peacekeeping, Security Council reform and the Middle East. She also served as deputy head of the office of the clerk general at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.
During 2011- 14, she served as chief of protocol in the external affairs ministry, the first lady officer to hold this position responsible for gregarious visits by the chairman, vice chairman, high minister and external affairs minister. In this capacity, she was involved in organising transnational summits in India.
Kamboj was posted as India’s minister to UNESCO in Paris during 2014- 16 before being appointed as the envoy to South Africa. She was latterly appointed minister to Bhutan in 2019.
She will be serving as India’s new UN ambassador as a successor of T.S Trimurti. In India’s second year in the two year non permanent member in the United Nations Security Council at New York.
