Ruchira Kamboj is India’s new ambassador to the UN in New York

India on Tuesday named Ruchira Kamboj, a career diplomat with wide-ranging expertise in multilateral organisations, as its next permanent representative to the United Nations in New York.

Kamboj, currently the ambassador to Bhutan and an officer of the 1987 batch of the Indian Foreign Service, is expected to take up the assignment shortly, the external affairs ministry said.

She will succeed TS Tirumurti, who was given a three-month extension in service after his retirement in March in view of his key role in dealing with the fallout of the Ukraine crisis at the UN Security Council. India is currently in the second year of a two-year term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.

Kamboj was the all India women’s topper of the 1987 civil services batch and the topper of the 1987 IFS batch. She has served in various capacities in Indian missions in France, Mauritius and South Africa and as the high commissioner to South Africa during 2017-19.