Bhubaneswar: Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Arun Kumar Sahu, who hails from Odisha’s Deogarh, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Bulgaria, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Wednesday.
The 1996-batch officer is expected to take up the assignment shortly, it added.
Sahu has been serving as Additional Secretary (Central Europe) in the Ministry since September 2022. He was earlier posted as High Commissioner of India to Trinidad & Tobago.
An alumnus of erstwhile Ravenshaw College, he holds master’s degrees in War in Modern World from King’s College London and Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He did his schooling from Ravenshaw Collegiate School in Cuttack and Chandra Sekhar Behera Zilla School in Sambalpur.