Mr. Anshuman Gaur

Acting High Commissioner of India to Canada

Mr. Anshuman Gaur was born in Patna (India) and Graduated with Honours from Patna Science College in 1995. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 2001. He has since served in various capacities in the Indian Embassies at Paris and Nepal and with the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO, Paris. At headquarters he has served on Bhutan Desk, as Officer on Special Duty in the External Publicity Division and as Director looking after western European Affairs. He also served as Officer on Special duty to the Vice President of India and as Private Secretary to the Law Minister of India. He speaks English, Hindi and French.

He is married to Ms. Apoorva Srivastava, presently the Consul General of India in Toronto. They have two daughters.

An avid cricket enthusiast, Mr. Gaur was a featured writer for Word Weavers in 2017. His collection of poems, ‘Isthmus of Time’ was published in 2017.