Reenat Sandhu

Sandhu holds a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.^[3] She is married to Taranjit Singh Sandhu who served as Ambassador of India to the United States. They have two children.^[3]

Reenat Sandhu joined the Indian Foreign Service in August 1989.^[2] She has served at the Indian missions in Moscow, Kyiv, Washington, D.C., Colombo, New York and Geneva.^[3] She has also worked at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi and handled Investment and Trade Promotion, Projects, East Europe and Sri Lanka desks.^{[citation needed]}

She was the Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the World Trade Organization in Geneva from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 to 2017, she was the Minister (Commerce)^[4] and later the Deputy Chief of Mission^[5] at the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C.^[3]

Sandhu was made the first Additional Secretary of the new Oceania vertical in the MEA, including the former Indo-Pacific and South divisions.^[6][7] Following this she became Secretary (West) and served there till February 2022.^[8]