List of ambassadors of India to the United States

Ambassador of India to the United States
Ambassador of India to the United States
	Incumbent; Navtej Singh Sarna; since September 2016
Nominator	Pranab Mukherjee
Inaugural holder	Asaf Ali
Formation	1947
Website	Embassy of India, Washington D.C., United States

The Indian Ambassador to the United States is the chief diplomatic representative of India to the United States, housed in Embassy of India, Washington, D.C..

List of Indian Ambassadors to the United States

Name	Photo	Entered office	Left office	Notes
Asaf Ali		1947	1948
Benegal Rama Rau		1948	1949	4th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit		1949	1951	First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly (1953)
Binay Ranjan Sen		1951	1952	Director General of Food and Agriculture Organization (1956–67)
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta		1952	1958
M. C. Chagla		1958	1961
Braj Kumar Nehru		1961	1968
Ali Yavar Jung		1968	1970
Lakshmi Kant Jha		1970	1973	8th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
T. N. Kaul		1973	1976
Kewal Singh		1976	1977
Nanabhoy Palkhivala	File:Nanipalkhivala.jpg	1977	1979
K. R. Narayanan		1980	1984	10th President of India
K. Shankar Bajpai		1984	1986
P. K. Kaul		1986	1989
Karan Singh		1989	1990	Titular Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir
Abid Hussain	File:Ambassador Abid Hussain.jpg	1990	1992
Siddhartha Shankar Ray		1992	1996	Minister of Education, Chief Minister of West Bengal
Naresh Chandra		1996	2001
Lalit Mansingh		2001	2004
Ronen Sen		2004	2009
Meera Shankar		2009	2011
Nirupama Rao		2011	2013
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar		2013	28 January 2015
Arun Kumar Singh		2015
Navtej Sarna	File:Navtej Sarna.png	2016