| Foreign Secretary of India |
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Emblem of India |
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Incumbent
Ranjan Mathai |
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| Residence | South Block, Secretariat Building, Raisina Hill, New Delhi, India |
| Appointer | Minister of External Affairs |
| Inaugural holder | K. P. S. Menon Senior |
| Formation | 1958 |
| Succession | Nirupama Rao |
| Website | Ministry of External Affairs |
An Indian Foreign Secretary is the top diplomat for Indian Foreign Relations, who is appointed in the Ministry of External Affairs Office. Foreign Secretaries are experienced IFS officers, who are ambassadors to foreign nations.
| Name | Took office | Left office | Minister of External Affairs |
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| K.P.S. Menon | 16 April 1948 | 21 September 1952 | Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister) |
| R. K. Nehru | 22 September 1952 | 10 October 1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister) |
| S. Dutt | 11 October 1955 | 17 January 1961 | Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister) |
| M. J. Desai | 11 April 1961 | 04 December 1963 | Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister) |
| Y.D.Gundevia | 05 December 1963 | 18 February 1965 | Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister), Gulzarilal Nanda, Lal Bahadur Shastri (Prime Minister), Sardar Swaran Singh |
| C.S. Jha | 19 February 1965 | 13 August 1967 | Sardar Swaran Singh, M.C. Chagla |
| R.Dayal | 19 August 1967 | 06 November 1968 | Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister) |
| T. N. Kaul | 7 November 1968 | 3 December 1972 | Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister), Dinesh Singh, Sardar Swaran Singh |
| Shri. K. Singh | 4 December 1972 | 31 March 1976 | Sardar Swaran Singh, Yashwantrao Chavan |
| J. S. Mehta | 1 April 1976 | 18 November 1979 | Yashwantrao Chavan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| R. D. Sathe | 19 November 1979 | 30 April 1982 | Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra, P V Narasimha Rao |
| M.K. Rasgotra | 1 May 1982 | 31 January 1985 | P V Narasimha Rao, Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister), Rajiv Gandhi (Prime Minister) |
| Romesh Bhandari | 1 February 1985 | 31 March 1986 | Rajiv Gandhi (Prime Minister) , Bali Ram Bhagat |
| A.P.Venkataeshwaran | 1 April 1986 | 20 January 1987 | Bali Ram Bhagat, P Shiv Shankar, Narayan Dutt Tiwari |
| S.K. Singh | 16 February 1989 | 19 April 1990 | P V Narasimha Rao, Vishwanath Pratap Singh (Prime Minister), I K Gujral |
| Muchukund Dubey | 20 April 1990 | 30 November 1991 | Inder Kumar Gujral |
| J.N. Dixit | 1 December 1991 | 31 January 1994 | Madhavsinh Solanki, P V Narasimha Rao (Prime Minister), Dinesh Singh |
| Krishnan Srinivasan | 1 February 1994 | 28 February 1995 | Dinesh Singh, Pranab Mukherjee |
| Salman Haidar | 1 March 1995 | 30 June 1997 | Pranab Mukherjee, Sikander Bakht, I K Gujral (Prime Minister) |
| K. Raghunath | 1 July 1997 | 1 December 1999 | I K Gujral (Prime Minister), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Prime Minister), Jaswant Singh |
| Lalit Mansingh | 1 December 1999 | 11 March 2001 | Jaswant Singh |
| Chokila Iyer[1] | 12 March 2001 | 29 June 2002 | Jaswant Singh |
| Kanwal Sibal | 1 July 2002 | 30 November 2003 | Yashwant Sinha |
| Shashank | 19 November 2003 | 31 July 2004 | Yashwant Sinha, Natwar Singh |
| Shyam Saran | 31 July 2004 | 1 September 2006 | Natwar Singh, Dr. Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister) |
| Shivshankar Menon | 1 September 2006 | 31 July 2009 | Dr. Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister), Pranab Mukherjee, S. M. Krishna |
| Nirupama Rao | 31 July 2009 | 31 July 2011 | S. M. Krishna |
| Ranjan Mathai | 1 August 2011 | 1 August 2013 | S. M. Krishna |
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