Ambassador Vikram Doraiswami

His Excellency Vikram Kumar Doraiswami
Ambassador of India to United Kingdom

His Excellency Vikram Doraiswami joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1992. Before joining the Government of India, he worked for a year as a journalist. He earned a Master’s degree in History from Delhi University. Following his training in the service in New Delhi from 1992 to 1993, Mr. Doraiswami was seconded to the High Commission of the India in Hong Kong in May 1994 as Third Secretary. He learned Chinese, earning an elective diploma in that language in the New Asia Yale-in-Asia language school of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was assigned to the Embassy of India in Beijing in September 1996, where he served for nearly four years.

Returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi in In 2000, Mr. Doraiswami was appointed Deputy Chief of Protocol (Ceremonials). After two years, he was assigned to the Prime Minister’s Office. He later served as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. In 2006, Mr. Doraiswami was assigned to the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York as Political Counsellor and in October 2009 he served as Consul General of India in Johannesburg, South Africa. In July 2011, Mr. Doraiswami returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi, where he was Head of the Division of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). During this period, he was also Coordinator of the Fourth BRICS Summit in New Delhi in March 2012.

From October 2012 to October 2014, Mr. Doraiswami was Assistant Secretary of the Americas Division of the MEA. He became Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan in October 2014, before being appointed as Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea in April 2015. Upon completion of this assignment, he returned to Headquarters in July 2018, where he served as Chief of Division for Bangladesh and Myanmar. In April 2019, he was tasked with creating a new Division in MEA for the Indo-Pacific. Following a promotion in December 2019, he was appointed Additional Secretary responsible for International Organizations and Summits. Prior to coming to the UK, Mr. Doraiswami served as India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh from October 2020 to 18 September 2022.

Assumed office as High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom on 23 September 2022. Vikram Doraiswami’s interests include reading, sports, fitness, travel, history and Jazz. He is an avid reader and a long-time admirer of PG Wodehouse’s works. He speaks Chinese, French and some Korean. His wife Sangeeta works in education and they have a 23-year-old son.