H.E. Ambassador Bhaswati Mukherjee is a post graduate (First Class) in History from Delhi University and has a Degree (Superior) in French History and Civilization from Sorbonne University, France. Ambassador Mukherjee joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976 and was India’s Ambassador to UNESCO, Paris, from 2004 to 2010 and subsequently, India’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, The Hague from 2010 to 2013. Ambassador Mukherjee completed FICCI’s course on ‘Woman and Corporate Governance’ and successfully completed with distinction the Ministry of Corporate Affairs online proficiency test for Independent Directors in October 2020. Ambassador Mukherjee has served as Independent Director in Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd. till August 2019 and Jindal Stainless till July 2023. She is presently an Independent Director in the Boards of JK Laxmi Cement as well as Udaipur Cement, in addition to Petronet LNG Limited. She is also Independent Director on the Board of Jindal Ferrous Limited. Ambassador Mukherjee worked successfully on the Indentured Labour Route Project for UNESCO and the Government of Mauritius. She has been a senior consultant to MGIEP, UNESCO and DFID. Ambassador Mukherjee was elected the first woman President of India Habitat Center in 2023 to 2025. 

A prolific writer, she has successfully authored 4 books. ‘India and EU: an Insider View’ commissioned by Indian Council of World Affairs, ‘India and EU in a Turbulent World’ published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020, ‘Bengal and its Partition: an Inside Story’ published by Rupa in March 2021, and ‘Indenture and its Route: a Relentless Quest for Identity’ by Rupa Publications published in September 2023. Ambassador Mukherjee has published over 100 articles, columns, book reviews, reports and monographs in leading national and international publications including Strategic Essay on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action in UN Human Rights Year Book 2025. 

A natural orator, Ambassador Mukherjee is a political commentator on Indian Culture and Civilization, the India EU relationship, Brexit, Human Rights, India’s interests in the Indo Pacific, the Chemical Weapons regime, nuclear issues and the changing contours of India’s Foreign Policy, apart from security issues of concern to India. 

Ambassador Mukherjee has participated in briefings, seminars, round tables on questions relating to India and the EU, India and its neighbors, the United Nations Human Rights Program, the human rights of women and the girl child, the indentured, as well as issues relating to UNESCO’s areas of competence, particularly in Education and Culture.