Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit Appointed as High Commissioner to Montserrat

New Delhi [India], July 1: Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit, who is currently serving as India’s High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, has been given an additional role as the High Commissioner to Montserrat. This announcement was made by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a press release.

Rajpurohit will continue to live in Port of Spain and is expected to start his new duties soon. He is an Indian Foreign Service officer from the 2004 batch.

The MEA stated, “Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit (IFS: 2004), presently High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, has been concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to Montserrat, with residence in Port of Spain. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.”

Rajpurohit took on the role of High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago on October 6, 2023. Before this, he was the Director General (Joint Secretary) for the Middle East Region (West Asia and North Africa) in the Ministry of External Affairs. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Ambassador of India to Iraq and from 2019 to 2020, he was the Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

He has also led the Political Section at the Indian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, and worked as the Second Secretary at the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and the Third Secretary at the Indian Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. Additionally, Rajpurohit has served as Director in India’s multilateral neighborhood BIMSTEC and SAARC Division and as Deputy Secretary dealing with India’s development cooperation projects in developing countries.