Doraiswami succeeds Issar

INDIA’S new high commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, is expected to take charge in London soon, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Tuesday (23).

He will succeed Gaitri Kumar Issar, who left at the end of her two-year tenure in June.

“Shri Vikram K Doraiswami (IFS: 1992), presently high commissioner of India to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, has been appointed as the next high commissioner of India to the United Kingdom,” the MEA said in a statement.

Doraiswami, who received his master’s degree in history from Delhi University, joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1992.

He was previously India’s ambassador to Uzbekistan (in October 2014), before being appointed India’s ambassador to Korea (in April 2015).

Other stints include serving as private secretary to the prime minister and as the head of the Bangladesh and Myanmar department at the ministry in 2018.

In April 2019, he was tasked with setting up a new department in the Ministry of External Affairs for the IndoPacific region.

He became Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh in October, 2020, and speaks Chinese and Korean.