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Edgard Kagan commences service as U.S. Consul General in Mumbai

| | Aug 01, 2017, at 10:59 pm
Washington/Mumbai, Aug 1 (IBNS): Edgard Kagan has assumed the post of Consul General of the United States in Mumbai as of Aug 1, 2017, succeeding former Consul General Tom Vajda, officials said on Tuesday.

Immediately prior to coming to Mumbai, Consul General Kagan served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Besides serving as the deputy director for the United States Mission to the United Nations in Washington, his other diplomatic posts include China, Australia, Israel, Hungary, and Cote d’Ivoire.  Consul General Kagan is a graduate of Yale University and joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1991, read an official statement.

“My family and I are honored to be representing our country here in western India.  I look forward to meeting people across our western Indian consular district and to working together to advance the U.S.-Indian partnership on all levels,” Kagan said in a statement.

Consul General Kagan is accompanied in Mumbai by his wife and three children.

 

Image: Wikimedia Commons
 

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