The High Commissioner
H. E. Shri Madhusudan Ganapathi
High Commissioner of India, Mauritius
H. E. Shri M. Ganapathi was born in Chennai on December 17, 1952.
He completed his M.Sc. in Chemistry in 1974 from Presidency College, Madras University.
High Commissioner Ganapathi joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1975. In the course of his diplomatic career he has held a wide range of overseas assignments. He has served in Indian Diplomatic Missions in Moscow (USSR; 1977-78); Sofia (1978-82); Singapore (1982-82); London (1988-91 as Counsellor); Belgrade (1991-93 as Counsellor/Charge D'Affaires); Moscow (Russian Federation; 1994-98 as Counsellor/Minister/Deputy Chief of Mission); Sydney (2001-2005; as Consul General of India) and Kuwait (2005-2008; as Ambassador).
He has also served in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi from 1985-88 [as Deputy Secretary (ASEAN and Pacific)/Private Secretary to Minister of State for External Affairs/ Private Secretary to Minister of State for Finance)]; and from 1998-2001 [as Joint Secretary, Foreign Service Institute (1998) and Joint Secretary (Europe East (1999-2001)].
High Commissioner Ganapathi took up his assignment as High Commissioner of India in Mauritius on September 9, 2008.
In addition to Hindi and Tamil (Mother tongue), he knows Russian and Bulgarian languages.
He is married to Mrs. Uma Ganapathi and has two daughters (Aparna and Aarti)