Venu Rajamony, press secretary to the President of India, is set to be India's Ambassador to the Netherlands, according to a foreign Office source.

Rajamony is an Indian Foreign Service Officer of the 1986 batch and has been President Pranab Mukherjee's press secretary for five years. 

He is expected to assume office in Netherlands by the middle of May 2017,
according to South Block in New Delhi. He will also be coordinating with the Netherlands foreign office about the nitty-gritties of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Netherlands in early September.

Before he was appointed press secretary, Rajamony was joint secretary in the Union Ministry of Finance dealing with international cooperation.

Rajamony was in-charge of multilateral institutions -- International Monetary Fund, World Bank, ADB -- in the Ministry of Finance. He was also Consul General in Dubai and has served nine years in Beijing and Hong Kong.

Rajamony was also director in the External Affairs Minister's office.

Interestingly, before he joined the Indian Foreign Service, he was a reporter at a national daily in Kerala.

Rajamony was private secretary to then foreign minister Yashwant Sinha in the Natiocal Democratic Alliance government and also briefly with K Natwar Singh.