- Suhel Ajaz Khan has been appointed as the next envoy to Saudi Arabia.
- Presently he is India’s ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon.
- A member of the 1997 batch of the IFS, Khan has spent much of his diplomatic career in the Middle East and can speak Arabic.
- This will be Khan’s third stint in Saudi Arabia.
- He served a stint in Jeddah as Consul at the Consulate-General of India in that city.
- He was also deputy chief of mission in Riyadh between 2017 and 2019.