Gautam Mukhopadhaya has been Ambassador of India to Syria, Afghanistan, and Myanmar.
He has also worked in the United Nations Headquarters in New York as a Consultant on Social Development and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.He was born on May 24, 1956 and studied at the all-boys' boarding school, The Doon School in Dehradun, followed by graduation from Delhi University in India.