New Delhi: Seasoned diplomat Nagesh Singh has been appointed as India’s next high commissioner to Australia, marking a key posting in New Delhi’s engagement with the Indo-Pacific region.
A 1995-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, Singh is currently serving as India’s ambassador to Thailand. He will take over from Gopal Baglay as high commissioner in Canberra, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
Singh brings with him extensive diplomatic experience across bilateral, multilateral and protocol roles. Before his posting in Bangkok, he served as chief of protocol at the MEA from July 2018 to October 2022, a position that placed him at the center of high-level diplomatic engagements and state visits.
Earlier in his career, Singh was India’s consul general in Atlanta from June 2015 to June 2018 and served as officer on special duty to the vice president between September 2012 and June 2015. He also held charge as director in the MEA’s Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran division from February 2010 to August 2012.
His overseas assignments include stints at India’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York and at the Indian Embassy in Paris, giving him wide exposure to both multilateral diplomacy and key European engagements.
Singh is an economics graduate from the University of Delhi and holds a postgraduate degree from the Delhi School of Economics.
