Manama: The announcement regarding the appointment of the new ambassador was made in a press release issued by the Union Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday. Vinod K Jacob has been appointed as the new Indian ambassador to Bahrain. The appointment follows the completion of the tenure of the current ambassador, Piyush Srivastava. Vinod K Jacob, a 2000 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service, is currently serving as the Deputy High Commissioner at the Indian High Commission in Colombo.
Apart from Sri Lanka, he has also served in Indian Missions in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Geneva. He has also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian Embassy in Beijing. Vinod K Jacob, a Malayali, studied at Padma Seshadri Balabhavan Senior Secondary School, Chennai. Chennai Dr. He completed his legal education from Ambedkar Law College. Nangya C., an officer in the Foreign Service. His wife is Khampa.
Jacob has served in Beijing and New York (Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations). At Headquarters, he has served as Desk Officer in China as well as Director (Deputy Director General level) in the division dealing with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. As Under Secretary (China), Jacob had been involved in helping a TN youth in China get a reprieve from death row on charges of possessing narcotics.
As the Joint Secretary [Economic Diplomacy] for the MEA in 2018, Vinod K. Jacob got on the WAPCOS Board of Directors. In 2018, he served as a director on the ITPO’s board of directors. In 2018, he was a member of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade’s Board of Management. He was a member of the Indian delegation to the International Solar Alliance’s (ISA) First Ministerial Assembly, which took place on October 3 in Greater Noida.
