Rakesh Sood

Ambassador of India to France. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. He served as India’s Ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan and Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. He also served as Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of India in Washington. Among his other assignments abroad, he has been First Secretary and Counsellor in India’s High Commission in Islamabad and First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations Offices in Geneva. He was also Joint Secretary heading the Disarmament and International Security Affairs Division in the Ministry of External Affairs.