Hamid Ali Rao appointed Indian ambassador to Saudi Arabia

JEDDAH: Hamid Ali Rao, an Indian Foreign Service officer from the 1981 batch, has taken charge as Indian Ambassador at the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia. He has succeeded Talmiz Ahmad who retired from the service at the end of last month.
Hailing from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, Rao is presently the permanent representative of India to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
Rao is son of the late Kunwasr Mohmood Ali Khan, a former governor of Madhya Pradesh.