Senior diplomat Vani Sarraju Rao has been appointed as India's new ambassador to Italy, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday.
Rao, who is a 1994-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, is currently serving as an additional secretary in the MEA.
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She succeeds Neena Malhotra.
"She is expected to take up the assignment shortly," the MEA said in a brief statement.
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