Dr. N. Nandakumar
Consul General of India, Shanghai

Dr. N. Nandakumar is a career diplomat belonging to 2007 batch of Indian Foreign Service. He joined Consulate General of India, Shanghai in February 2021. In the Ministry of External Affairs, Delhi, he worked as Director in the Office of Minister of State for External Affairs, and as Deputy Secretary in the Finance Division handling various development projects of Government of India in India’s neighbourhood, ASEAN countries and Africa.

In his assignments abroad, he had served as India’s Consul General in Mandalay, Myanmar, and in the Indian Mission in Tehran.

He holds a Doctorate in Genetics from Indian Agricultural Institute, New Delhi. He speaks Hindi, English, Tamil, Kannada and Persian. He is married and has a son.

He likes reading, cricket and yoga.

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