Beno Zephine Azhagiri

Beno Zephine Azhagiri (born 17 April 1990) is an Indian diplomat who has been serving as an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Officer since 2014. She is the first 100% visually challenged officer in the history of the Indian foreign service. She completed her schooling at the Little Flower Convent Higher Secondary School for the Blind in Chennai.

To navigate structural accessibility barriers during her extensive academic and civil services preparations, she relied heavily on Job Access With Speech (JAWS), an assistive screen-reading software that enabled independent interactions with digital texts, alongside verbal reading support provided by her family. In June 2015, she was formally inducted into the Indian Foreign Service (IFS). She was subsequently deployed to the High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she served as the First Secretary managing the Information, Political, and Policy Planning portfolios from July 2022 to July 2025. In July 2025, she transitioned to the Embassy of India in Jakarta, Indonesia, assuming office as the First Secretary managing Commerce and Political affairs.