Kumar Tuhin is a career diplomat from the 1991 batch of the

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who is currently the Director General of the

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. Prior to this posting, he was Ambassador of

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

. Earlier, he was India's High Commissioner to

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

. Before joining the Indian Foreign Service, Tuhin worked for a few years in the

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Education

Kumar Tuhin received his early education in Braj Kishore Kinder Garten,

Chhapra Chhapra is a city and headquarters of the Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is situated near the junction of the Ghaghara River and the Ganges River. Chhapra grew in importance as a river-based market in the 18th century when th ...

during 1976-1977. He then joined the

Netarhat Residential School Netarhat Residential School is a school in Netarhat, India. The school has a record of producing toppers of the Bihar School Examination Board year after year. The students have dominated the Regional Mathematics Olympiad and National Talent ...

in 1978 (now in

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, then in

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

state). In Class 10 exam conducted by the

Bihar School Examination Board The Bihar School Examination Board (abbreviated BSEB) is a statutory body under section 3 of Bihar School Examination Act - 1952 which is functioning under Government of Bihar devised to conduct examinations at secondary and senior secondary s ...

in 1983, Tuhin secured the first place in Bihar. From 1983-1985, he studied at St. Xavier's College, Ranchi. He joined

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

in 1985 in the Mechanical Engineering branch. Thereafter, he joined

Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering The Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (IRIMEE), was founded in 1888 as a technical school and commenced training Mechanical Officers for Indian Railways in 1927. It is the oldest of the five Centralised Trainin ...

and worked for a few years in the

cadre.

Career

After training at the

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in New Delhi, he was allotted Chinese as his foreign language. He served in the Consulate General of India,

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

(it was then called Commission of India, Hong Kong as it was still a UK territory) from 1993-1995, during which he obtained his advanced diploma from the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university an ...

. Thereafter, he served as Second Secretary /First Secretary at the Embassy of India, Beijing from 1995-1999. He subsequently served at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Offices in Geneva from 1999-2002 looking after, among others, specialized agencies of the

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. He served in the Indian Embassy in Hanoi from 2005-2009, and as Deputy Consul General at the Consulate General of India in San Francisco from 2009-2012. The Indian Consulate General in San Francisco then had a very large consular jurisdictional area, covering states up to Hawaii, Alaska and New Mexico.

High Commissioner to Namibia

Kumar Tuhin was appointed as the High Commissioner of India to Namibia on 23 June 2015. He completed his assignment in October 2018. During his tenure in Namibia, Mr. Tuhin laid the foundations for the establishment of a Centre of Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) at the

Namibia University of Science and Technology The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), formerly known as Polytechnic of Namibia, is a public university located in the city of Windhoek, Namibia. Andrew Niikondo is its acting vice-chancellor. NUST was headed by the founding ...

. During the visit of President of India to Namibia in 2016, Tuhin was the signatory from the Indian side of the MoU on cooperation between the Namibia Institute for Public Administration and Management, (NIPAM) and the

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resource ...

. In Sep 2018, Mr. Tuhin was the signatory from the Indian side of the agreement between the NIPAM and the

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) is a civil service training institute on public policy and public administration in India. The academy's main purpose is to train civil servants of the IAS cadre and also cond ...

. India-Namibia economic relations received specific boost during his tenure.

Ambassador to Hungary

Tuhin was appointed as the

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of India to Hungary on 26 September 2018. For his work in Hungary, Mr. Tuhin has indicated economic sectors as priority areas.

Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina

On 14 May 2019, Kumar Tuhin was concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

. He presented his credentials to Mr. Želјko Komšić, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Other Details

In the

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, he has served in various capacities including as

Joint Secretary to the Government of India Joint Secretary to Government of India (often abbreviated as JS, GoI or Union Joint Secretary or Joint Secretary to Union of India) is a post under the Central Staffing Scheme and the third highest non-political executive rank in Government of I ...

in-charge of Development Partnership Administration from 2012-2015. His responsibilities included the capacity building programmes of the government of India, including the flagship Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) scheme as well as setting up of Centres of Excellence in IT and Vocational Training Centres as also implementation of grant projects in some regions of the world. Mr. Tuhin has attended a leadership programme at the

Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies Established in 2000, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies is a U.S. Department of Defense institution for building relationships and understanding in the NESA region. The NESA Center supports the theater security cooperati ...

at the National Defence University in USA. He speaks Hindi, English, Chinese and French.

Publication

Tuhin has published an article entitled “India’s development cooperation through capacity building” in the book “India’s Approach to Development Cooperation” published by Routledge, 2016.

References

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