Pooja Kapur

Pooja Kapur joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1996. She has served at the Indian Embassies in Paris and Brussels (accredited to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg) and the Indian High Commissions in London and Kuala Lumpur. In the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, she has held charges pertaining to India's relationship with Western Europe, South East Asia, the United Nations and the Commonwealth, most recently heading the ASEAN Multilateral Division.[3][4] She assumed charge as Ambassador of India to the Republic of Bulgaria in July 2017,[5] and was concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Macedonia in November 2017.[6]

She was adjudged a LinkedIn Top Voice 2018, and was the only diplomat to make the list.[7][8]

Pooja Kapur was a Chevening scholar at the University of Oxford.[9] She has a Masters in Public Administration from the École nationale d’administration in Paris as well as a Bachelors and Masters in Political Science from the University of Delhi.[4] A university topper and recipient of several academic scholarships and awards, she is fluent in English, French and Hindi.[4]

Pooja Kapur is the daughter of an Indian Administrative Service officer.

Pooja Kapur is a published author, having co-authored her first book on politics at the age of twenty.