Mumbai: Swapnil Thorat, an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 2017 batch, assumed charge as Mumbai’s regional passport officer on Tuesday. He succeeds Arjun Deore. Thorat was posted in South Korea from 2018-23 and served as an in-charge of the trade and investment and public diplomacy departments in the Indian embassy based in South Korea. He also served in the external affairs ministry’s finance division for over two years. He holds a master’s in biotechnology from Mumbai University and worked in the field of cancer research from Advanced Centre for Treatment Research & Education In Cancer in Navi Mumbai for some time. TNN
