Periasamy Kumaran

Periasamy Kumaran was born on 23 January 1969.^[3] He was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in Chennai with a B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication engineering.^[4]

Kumaran entered the Indian Foreign Service in 1992.^[5] From January 1994 to June 1997, he worked as Third Secretary at the Indian Embassy in Cairo, while studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo.^[4]

From July 1997 to December 2000, he served as Second Secretary, then First Secretary of the Indian Embassy at Tripoli, Libya. From December 2000 to September 2003, he was First Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Brussels. From September 2003 to March 2005, he was Director of the Western Europe department in the Ministry of External Affairs.^[5]

From April 2005 to June 2007 he was passport officer for the Bangalore district. From June 2007 to October 2009, he was posted to Pakistan as the Counselor to the Indian High Commission. Thereafter, he was sent to the United States, where he was the Counselor at the Indian embassy there from October 2009 to August 2011.^[4]

From September 2011 June 2014, he was Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka. From July 2014 to September 2016, he was Joint Secretary of the Consular, Passport & Visa Division at the foreign ministry in New Delhi.^[4] Thereafter, he served as Ambassador to Qatar from October 2016 to July 2020.^[6][7]

Kumaran was appointed High Commissioner to Singapore on 26 May 2020^[8] and presented his credentials on 25 August 2020,^[5] serving in that post from July 2020 to July 2023.^[9][10]

On 26th March, 2026, Kumaran has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom.^[11]