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Amb. K. D. Dewal

Ambassador K. D. Dewal is a career diplomat and he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 2003. Ambassador Dewal assumed office of the Ambassador of India to Dominican Republic on 11th October, 2025. Prior to his current assignment, he served in the Ministry of External Affairs of India as Head of Counter-Terrorism Division leading bilateral counter-terrorism cooperation with several countries and multilateral organizations. As Joint Secretary (Counter-Terrorism), he led 26 bilateral and 5 multilateral counter-terrorism dialogues and led India’s counter-terrorism agenda globally.

Ambassador Dewal has also served as Ambassador of India to Armenia & Georgia from August 2019 to February, 2023. He also served in various Missions abroad in different diplomatic capacities; including in Russian Federation, Uzbekistan and Mauritius (as Dy. Head of Mission).

At the Ministry of External Affairs (Headquarters), he served as Deputy Secretary (Eurasia) looking after India’s relations with five Central Asian countries and also as Deputy Secretary (Multilateral Economic Relations).

Mr. Dewal has done his Bachelor’s degree in B. Com. (Honours) and Master’s degree in Public Administration with NET from Rajasthan University, Jaipur.

After joining the Indian Foreign Service, he was trained at Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy of Administration, Mussoorie and Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi.

Mr. Dewal is a keen hiker, marathon runner and mountaineer. His hobbies include hiking, skiing and music. He led a group of 50 devotees  on trekking expedition/pilgrimage to the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra in July, 2025 receiving appreciation from the Ministry of External Affairs of India as well as the fellow yatris. Ambassador Dewal has a few publication of articles in magazines to his credit.

He is married to Mrs. Shweta Dewal and has two children. He speaks Hindi, English and Russian.

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14 October 2024