♦ Anurag Srivastava was appointed as India's next high commissioner to Mauritius on 16 November 2024. He is a 1999-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) diplomat. 

♦ Anurag is currently serving as a joint secretary helming the Nepal-Bhutan division at the headquarters of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). He will succeed incumbent K Nandini Singla.

♦ Prior to his appointment as joint secretary in the Nepal-Bhutan division in March 2021, he served as the spokesperson in the MEA for nearly a year.

♦ Srivastava also served as India's ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union from September 2016 to February 2020.