Nagma Mohamed Mallick, a 1991-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to Japan. Mallick currently serves as ambassador to the Republic of Poland.
“He is expected to take over the assignment soon,” the government said, announcing the new assignment on October 16.
Mallick joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1991. She holds a BA in English Literature and a MA in Sociology. She speaks English, French, Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam, according to her profile on the official website.
India’s first woman Deputy Chief of Protocol
Mallick began her diplomatic career in Paris, serving at the Indian Embassy and the Indian Mission to UNESCO.
She also served in New Delhi in various capacities in the Government of India, starting as an officer in the Western Europe Division of the Ministry of External Affairs and then as Prime Minister IK Gujral’s personal staff in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
Mallick also served as the first woman Deputy Chief of Protocol (Ceremonial) after her stint in the PMO from 1997 to 1998. She then served in Indian diplomatic missions in Nepal and Sri Lanka as First Secretary and Counsellor.
After returning to Delhi, she was the Deputy Spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs. She was then a director in the Eurasia division, overseeing India’s bilateral relations with Russia and the CIS countries. From July 2010 to September 2012, she worked as the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy in Thailand.
She was the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Tunisia from October 2012 to November 2015. She was the High Commissioner of India to Brunei Darussalam from December 2015 to December 2018.
Educational qualifications
Born in New Delhi to Keralite parents from Kasaragod, Mallick studied at St Stephen’s College and the Delhi School of Economics before joining the civil service.
He is expected to take up the task soon.
From February 2019 to January 2020, she was Head of the Department’s Policy Planning Division and then Additional Secretary (Africa) until August 2021 as Head of Relations with East and Southern African Nations overseeing relations with all of Africa.
She is the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Poland from September 2021.
