Who Is Namgya C Khampa? Diplomat Who Represented India At First Meeting Of Trump's Board Of Peace

Last Updated:February 20, 2026, 08:38 IST

According to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Namgya C Khampa is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Officer of the 2000 batch.

India took part as an “observer" in the inaugural meeting of US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Gaza on Thursday (February 19). Namgya Choden Khampa, the Chargé d’Affaires at the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC represented India.

India was not present at the January 22 ceremony in Davos, where Trump formally launched the Board of Peace, an initiative aimed at fostering long-term stability in Gaza and potentially addressing other global conflicts.

Who Is Namgya Khampa?

According to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Namgya C Khampa is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Officer of the 2000 batch.

Namgya Khampa is currently serving as the Chargé d’Affaires (Cd’A) and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of India in Washington, D.C., as of February 2026. In this capacity, she heads the mission in the absence of an ambassador and oversees key diplomatic engagements between India and the United States.

Prior to her present assignment in Washington, she served as India’s High Commissioner to Kenya, where she was responsible for strengthening bilateral ties and advancing India’s diplomatic and development partnerships in the region.

In 2023, while serving as High Commissioner to Kenya, Khampa was concurrently accredited as India’s Ambassador to Somalia, with residence in Nairobi.

Before taking over as High Commissioner of India to Kenya, Khampa served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kathmandu, Nepal. She has served twice in India’s diplomatic Mission in China from 2002 to 2006 and from 2013 to 2016, Indian High Commission in Kenya said in a statement.

She has also worked in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York from 2009 to 2013. While in New York, she was elected to serve as a Member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) from 2011 to 2013.

Khampa has also served as India’s representative on the Executive Board of the UNDP and UNFPA during her tenure in New York.

At the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, Khampa has at different times handled relations with the United States, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, according to the statement.

From 2016-2018, Khampa has served on deputation to the Prime Minister’s Office. She headed the Development Partnership Division in the Foreign Ministry and handled Indian grant assistance and development cooperation with neighbouring countries from 2018-2020. She has a Masters’ and M Phil degrees in international relations.

Trump’s Board Of Peace

The Board of Peace had been rolled out by Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month and he had insisted that “everyone wants to be a part" of the body, which could eventually rival the United Nations.

The Board was originally conceived as a body to oversee the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, support reconstruction efforts, and assist in governing the territory. However, the US President’s ambitions for the initiative have since expanded significantly.

Officials from nearly 50 countries participated in the meeting at the US Institute of Peace in Washington. Of these, 27 countries, including Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam, are part of the board while the rest, including India and the European Union, participated as observers.

After receiving an invitation to join the Board, India did not immediately indicate whether it would accept and was absent from its launch in Davos. Subsequently, on February 12, the Ministry of External Affairs said the proposal was under consideration.

The presence of the Charge d’Affaires at Thursday’s meeting, however, made it clear that India is willing to engage with the Board even if it is not ready to be a full-fledged member yet.

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