Secretary General, BIMSTEC, His Excellency Ambassador Indra Mani Pandey, is a career diplomat of India. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1990.
Before his present assignment as Secretary General, BIMSTEC, Ambassador Pandey served as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations and Other International organizations in Geneva. He had earlier served as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs in charge of the Disarmament & International Security Affairs Division. During his 35-year-long career as an Indian diplomat, Ambassador Pandey has served as Ambassador of India to the Sultanate of Oman. Before his Ambassadorial assignment in Muscat, he served as Deputy Ambassador of India to France and Consul General of India at Guangzhou in China.
Ambassador Pandey has also served in various diplomatic capacities at Indian Missions in Cairo (Egypt), Damascus (Syria), Islamabad (Pakistan), Kabul (Afghanistan) and Permanent Mission of India to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva (Switzerland). During his various stints at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, Ambassador Pandey handled assignments in the West Asia and North Africa Division; the Consular, Passport and Visa Division; the Counter Terrorism Cell; the Americas Division; and the Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Myanmar (BSM) Division. During October 1998- June 99, Ambassador Pandey attended the Foreign Service Programme at Oxford University, the U.K. In 2009, he attended the 49th Annual Course on National Security and Strategy, conducted by the National Defence College of India. Ambassador Pandey is married to Mrs. Sushma Pandey, and they have a daughter. Ambassador Pandey has learnt Arabic and French.
