Vikram Doraiswami appointed as the next Ambassador of India to China, has handled responsibilities in many countries

New Delhi, March 19. Vikram Doraiswami, a 1992 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to China. This information was given by the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday. Doraiswamy is currently India’s High Commissioner to Britain. It is expected that he will soon take up his responsibility in China.

Doraiswami joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1992. Before that, he did journalism for a year. According to the Ministry of External Affairs, he took a master’s degree in history from Delhi University. After completing his in-service training in New Delhi in 1992–1993, Doraiswami was appointed Third Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Hong Kong in May 1994. He completed a Diploma in Chinese Language from the New Asia Yale-in-Asia Language School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In September 1996, Doraiswami was appointed to the Indian Embassy in Beijing, where he held responsibility for about four years. Then on his return to the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi in 2000, Doraiswami took up the appointed role of Deputy Chief of Protocol (Official). After two years he was promoted to the office of the Prime Minister. He later served as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India.

In 2006, Doraiswami took charge as Political Counselor in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York and in October 2009 as Consul General of India in Johannesburg (South Africa). In July 2011, Doraiswami returned to the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, where he headed the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) department. During this time, he was also the coordinator of the fourth BRICS Summit in New Delhi in March 2012.

Vikram Doraiswami was then Joint Secretary in the US Department of State from October 2012 to October 2014. He became India’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan in October 2014 before being appointed India’s Ambassador to Korea in April 2015. After this, he returned to the headquarters in July 2018 and worked as the head of Bangladesh and Myanmar department.

Doraiswami Sugar, Very fluent in French and Korean

In April 2019, he was assigned the task of creating a new department in the Ministry of External Affairs for the Indo-Pacific region. Following his promotion in December 2019, he was made Additional Secretary for International Organizations and Summits. Before Britain, he had taken over the post of Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh on October 5, 2020. The noteworthy fact is that Vikram Doraiswamy is quite comfortable speaking Chinese, French and Korean.