<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Pranay Kumar Verma, presently ambassador of India to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, has been appointed as the next high commissioner of India to Bangladesh.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Ministry of External Affairs made the announcement on Friday. Verma is expected to take up the assignment shortly.</div><div><br></div><div>Verma joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1994 and has held diplomatic assignments in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Beijing, Kathmandu and Washington DC.</div><div><br></div><div>Before arriving in Hanoi, Verma served as the joint secretary of the East Asia division at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi since June 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, he also served as the joint secretary for external relations at the Department of Atomic Energy looking after India’s nuclear diplomacy.</div><div><br></div><div>Verma has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.</div><div><br></div><div>Before joining the Indian Foreign Service, he started his professional career at India’s steel manufacturing company, Tata Steel.</div><div><br></div><div>He also holds a Master’s degree in the Chinese language from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, California, US.</div><div><br></div><div>He assumed the office of Ambassador of India to Vietnam on July 25, 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>