Mr. Navdeep Suri is a member of the Indian Foreign Service since 1983. After heading the West Africa Division of the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi from December 2004 – August, 2006, he arrived in South Africa on August 21, 2006 to assume charge as Consul General of India in Johannesburg.

Mr. Suri's first diplomatic assignment was at the Indian Embassy in Cairo, where he also studied Arabic. This was followed by a three-year stint in Damascus before a return to headquarters in New Delhi in 1991 where he was closely associated with efforts to project India as an investment destination.

He moved to the Indian Embassy in Washington DC in 1993 and worked as the political counsellor there till his transfer to the position of Deputy High Commissioner at the Indian mission in Dar es Salaam in 1997. He worked at the Indian High Commission in London from August 2000 to August 2004 as the spokesperson and head of the Press and Information department.

Mr. Suri speaks Arabic and French, has a Masters degree in Economics and is co-author of the study Development Strategy as a Determinant of Foreign Policy: A case study of India and Pakistan. Saintly Sinner, his English translation of a classic Punjabi novel was published in October 2003. His work on Indo-African relations has been published in ‘India's Foreign Policy', while his study titled ‘Outsourcing and Development ' was presented at the Inter-Government Experts Meeting organized by UNCTAD at and has been published in a recent US book on the winners and losers of globalisation.

He is married, lives in Houghton, Johannesburg with his wife Mani and daughters Manveena and Jessleena and is fond of travel, books, cinema, golf and cricket.