Senior diplomat Anurag Srivastava (IFS:1999) has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Republic of Mauritius. Presently, he is serving as a Joint Secretary, Nepal-Bhutan division at the headquarters of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). He will replace K Nandini Singla (IFS:1997), who has been serving in the post since October 2020.
In a statement, the MEA said, ” Anurag Srivastava (IFS:1999), presently Joint Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Republic of Mauritius.”
“He is expected to take up the assignment shortly,” the statement added.
Prior to his appointment as Joint Secretary in the Nepal-Bhutan division in March 2021, he served as the spokesperson in the MEA for nearly a year. Srivastava also served as India’s ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union from September 2016 to February 2020.
In his nearly 25-year-long career as a diplomat, he also served in many Indian missions abroad, including as the head of the political wing at New Delhi’s High Commission in Colombo and had a stint at India’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.
In Colombo, he was closely involved in the formulation and implementation of India’s development projects in Sri Lanka. He has also held different positions in the foreign office in New Delhi, including in the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran division.
