Ms. Muanpuii Saiawi

High Commissioner of India to New Zealand - Designate

Ms. Muanpuii Saiawi is an Indian Foreign Service officer of 2005 batch.  

2. She has served in Embassy of India in Republic of Korea, Japan and in Israel. In the Ministry of External Affairs she has served as Under Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Director (Disarmament & International Security Affairs). She was Joint Secretary (Cyber Diplomacy & New Emerging & Strategic Technologies) from 2022-2023. She was the Chair of the 2022 Group of Governmental Experts on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms.

3. Ms. Saiawi served as Joint Secretary (Disarmament & International Security Affairs) from September 2022 to March 2026. The Division handles a wide range of multilateral disarmament issues; the multilateral export control regimes; maritime security and international cooperation with Department of Space and Department of Atomic Energy.

4. She is High Commissioner of India-designate to New Zealand.

5. Her husband is Ambassador of India to the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. They have a daughter. 

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