♦ Senior diplomat Parvathaneni Harish was appointed the next permanent representative to the United Nations in New York on 14 August 2024. Currently  he is India’s ambassador to Germany. Harish succeeded Ruchira Kamboj.

♦ Harish is the 1990 batch of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer. 

♦ He has served as additional secretary (economic relations) in the external affairs ministry, leading the economic diplomacy division that deals with economic relations with other countries and liaises with all line economic ministries of the government. He also led the multilateral economic relations division and was the deputy sherpa for the G20, G7, Brics, and IBSA.