India’s newly appointed ambassador to Nepal, Sudhakar Dalela, has arrived in Kathmandu.
He landed in Kathmandu on Tuesday afternoon aboard an Air India flight.
Previously, Naveen Srivastava served as India’s ambassador to Nepal. Following the completion of his tenure and departure, Dalela was appointed as the ambassador.
According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, Dalela is an officer of the 1993 batch of the Indian Foreign Service.
Dalela previously served as the Indian ambassador to Bhutan from 2022 to 2025. He has also shouldered important responsibilities handling relations with Nepal and Bhutan at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.
Dalela served as director of the Northern Division at the Ministry of External Affairs from 2006 to 2007 and as joint secretary of the North Division from 2016 to 2019. In these roles, he looked after India's relations with Nepal and Bhutan.
He worked as a director at the Prime Minister's Office in New Delhi from 2009 to 2011, where he handled matters related to India's relations with South Asian neighbors, East Asia and the Indo-Pacific, the Gulf, the Middle East, and African countries.
With experience in trade and economic diplomacy, Dalela worked as director of trade policy at the Ministry of Commerce. He served twice at India's Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and was India's deputy permanent representative from 2014 to 2016.
He also held various diplomatic assignments in the United States. He was the consul general of India in Chicago and served at the Embassy of India in Washington, DC, as minister for political affairs from 2011 to 2014 and as deputy chief of mission from 2020 to 2022.
Dalela had been serving as secretary of economic relations at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs since September 1, 2025. In this role, he oversaw India's economic diplomacy, development partnerships with the Global South, partnerships with Africa, multilateral economic relations, and matters concerning new and emerging strategic technologies.
Dalela is an electronics engineering graduate.
