Vikram Doraiswami is an Indian diplomat. He has served as Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan (2014-2015), Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea (2015-2018) and High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh (2020-2022). He was appointed as the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom on September 22, 2022.
Wiki/Biography
Vikram Kumar Doraiswami was born on Friday, July 11, 1969, in Kerala, India (54 years; as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Cancer. He attended a boarding school in southern India. He received his MA in History from Delhi University.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′11″
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye color: black
Vikram Doraiswami with President Droupadi Murmu of India
family
Vikram Doraiswami was born into a Tamil family with roots in Kerala, India.
Parents and siblings
His father was an army officer and served as a pilot in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Vikram Doleswamy’s father
wife and children
In 1996, Vikram Doraiswami married Sangeeta Doraiswami. Sangeeta Doraiswami is a trained psychologist who works as a primary school teacher in the city where her husband is stationed. Together they have a son.
Vikram Doraiswami and Sangeeta Doraiswami
Profession
Vikram Doraiswami is a 1992-batch officer in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS). Before that, he worked as a reporter for a year. Doraiswami trained in New Delhi from 1992 to 1993. Thereafter, he was appointed as Third Secretary at the High Commission of India in Hong Kong in May 1994. While in Hong Kong, he took a diploma course in Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. New Asia Yale School of Asian Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. After nearly four years in Hong Kong, he was posted to the Indian Embassy in Beijing in September 1996. In 2000, he returned to the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, as Deputy Chief of Protocol (Protocol). During the tenure of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he was appointed to the Prime Minister’s Office in May 2004 and served as the personal secretary to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Indian Ambassador to South Korea Vikram Doleswamy (centre) speaks to guests at a farewell party held at the Indian Embassy in Seoul
In 2006, he was appointed Political Counselor at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York, and in October 2009, he served as Consul General of India in Johannesburg, South Africa. In July 2011, Doraiswamy returned to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi and headed the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) department. He also served as coordinator of the fourth BRICS leaders’ meeting held in New Delhi in March 2012. From October 2012 to October 2014, he served as Co-Secretary of the Americas Division of the Multilateral Environmental Agreement. In October 2014, he was appointed Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan. From April 2015 to July 2018, he served as India’s Ambassador to South Korea.
Vikram Doraiswami presents credentials to South Korean President Park Geun-hye
After completing his duties as ambassador to South Korea, he returned to the headquarters in July 2018 as head of the Bangladesh and Myanmar departments. In April 2019, he was tasked with establishing a new Indo-Pacific division in the Middle East and Africa region. He was promoted and designated as Additional Secretary for International Organizations and Summits in December 2019. Doraiswamy served as the Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh from October 2020 to September 18, 2022.
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami presents credentials to Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in Dhaka (2020)
He assumed office as the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom on September 23, 2022. In a traditional ceremony, Doraiswamy rode in a classic carriage to present his credentials to King Charles III at Buckingham Palace. He submitted a letter of commission, a formal letter, to the monarch, Drupadi Murmu, as the head of state of the United Kingdom, marking the official start of his tenure in the United Kingdom. He was the first Indian envoy to be received by the king at the palace since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
Vikram Doraiswamy, High Commissioner of India to the UK, handed over a letter of authorization to King Charles of the UK during an audience at Buckingham Palace
Facts/Trivia
- Doraiswami’s interests include reading, sports, fitness, travel, history and jazz. He has a voracious appetite for reading. PG Wodehouse was his favorite author.
- He speaks English, Hindi, Tamil, Chinese, French and Korean.
- He is not a vegetarian.
- He occasionally drinks alcoholic beverages.
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