New Delhi, Mar 31 (UNI) Rudrendra Tandon, presently Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Greece. Tandon was the Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan at the time of its takeover by the Taliban in August 2021.
He returned to India from Kabul along with several other Indian Embassy officials, staff and Indian citizens on August 17, 2021, two days after the Taliban takeover.
Tandon, an IFS officer of 1994 batch, was heading the BIMSTEC and SAARC division in the MEA.