Shri Jaideep Mazumdar, born in Shillong, India, joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1989. Most recently he has been Ambassador of India to Austria, the Holy See and Montenegro and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Vienna. He was also Governor on the Board of Governors of the IAEA during this time and Chair of the Plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement. Prior to that, he was Ambassador to the Philippines, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia. In his career of over 34 years, he has served in various diplomatic capacities in China (Hong Kong and Beijing), in Bangladesh, at the United Nations in New York, and in Cairo, Egypt. He has also served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing and in Kathmandu.
In his stints in New Delhi, he has served in the Prime Minister’s Office on foreign affairs, defence and security issues, atomic energy and space, as Chief of Protocol and as Head of the Southern Division in the Ministry of External Affairs of India looking after bilateral relations with countries in Southeast Asia, as well as Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island Countries. Concurrently, he then also headed the Nalanda Division in the Ministry of External Affairs, charged with the revival of the ancient Nalanda University, an East Asia Summit initiative.
Ambassador Mazumdar assumed the position of Secretary East in the Ministry of External Affairs on 11 March, 2024.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Management. Apart from the English language, he is conversant in Assamese, Bengali, Hindi and Chinese. Travelling, reading and music are his interests.
He is married to Parvati C. Mazumdar, a former civil servant and now an Education Consultant. They have two children - a son, Ronojoy, an economic journalist and a daughter, Deboleena, a behavioural data scientist.