Anil Wadhwa

Anil Wadhwa

Indian Ambassador to Italy and San Marino
In office March 2016 – May 2017
Preceded by	Basant Kumar Gupta
Succeeded by	Reenat Sandhu
Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, India
In office February 2014 – February 2016
Succeeded by	Preeti Saran
Indian Ambassador to Poland and Lithuania
In office March 2004 – August 2007
Preceded by	R. L. Narayan
Succeeded by	C.M. Bhandari
Indian Ambassador to Oman
In office August 2007 – September 2007
Preceded by	Ashok Kumar Attri
Succeeded by	J. S. Mukul
Indian Ambassador to Thailand
In office November 2011 – January 2014
Preceded by	Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty
Succeeded by	Harsh Vardhan Shringla

Personal details
Born	26 May 1957
Nationality	Indian
Spouse(s)	Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa
Alma mater	University of Delhi
Occupation	Diplomat IFS

Anil Wadha is an Indian diplomat who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service. He has served as the Indian Ambassador to Italy, Poland, Oman and Thailand. He is currently a Senior Fellow & Cluster Leader at the Vivekananda International Foundation in New Delhi.

Wadhwa holds a Master of Arts with a specialisation in Chinese History as well as Medieval Indian history and Architecture from the University of Delhi. He is married to Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, who also belongs to the Indian Foreign Service. They have two sons.

Anil Wadhwa was a member of the Indian Foreign Service on 1 July 1979 to 31 May 2017. He has served at the Indian missions in Hong Kong, Beijing, Geneva, Warsaw,Muscat,Bangkok and Rome.

He has served as the Director/Joint Secretary at the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague from July 1993 to July 2000.