| Office: | High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom |
| Term Start: | 22 September 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Gaitri Issar Kumar |
| Office1: | High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh |
| Term Start1: | October 2020 |
| Term End1: | September 2022 |
| Predecessor1: | Riva Ganguly Das |
| Successor1: | Pranay Kumar Verma |
| Office2: | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea |
| Term Start2: | April 2015 |
| Term End2: | July 2018 |
| Predecessor2: | Vishnu Prakash |
| Successor2: | Sripriya Ranganathan |
| Office3: | Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan |
| Term Start3: | October 2014 |
| Term End3: | March 2015 |
| Occupation: | Indian Foreign Service |
| Alma Mater: | University of Delhi |
| Honorific Suffix: | IFS |
| Honorific Prefix: | His Excellency |
Vikram Kumar Doraiswami is the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom.[1] Prior to this appointment, he was the High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh.
Doraiswami was born to a Tamil military family. His father was an airforce officer who fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war, a country to which Doraiswamy eventually became High Commissioner.[2] He studied in schools all over India before eventually acquiring a master's degree in history from the University of Delhi. He worked for a year as a journalist while sitting for the Civil Services exam.
He joined the Indian Foreign Service as part of the 1992 batch. In the course of his diplomatic career, he has been posted to the permanent mission to the UN, was the consul general in Johannesburg, and headed the Division for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and the North American division at the Ministry of External Affairs. He has served as High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh,[3] and as Ambassador of India to South Korea and Uzbekistan.[4] He was also deputed to the Prime Ministers office during the tenure of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was Private secretary to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.[5]
He is married to Sangeeta Doraiswamy and they have one son.[6] Vikram Doraiswami's interests include reading, sports, fitness, travel and Jazz. He speaks Chinese, some French and Korean.