Dinesh K. Patnaik [5] is an Indian Foreign Service officer from the 1990 cadre currently serving as Ambassador of India to Spain.
He then worked as Deputy High Commissioner of India in the United Kingdom between November 2018 and July 2019.
He was additional secretary for the Ministry of External Affairs' Indian Ocean Region (IOR) division; Consular, Passport and Visa (CPV) division; and Overseas Indian Affairs (OIA) division from November 2018 to February 2020, when he was appointed as the Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).
[8][9][10] Patnaik spoke at the Jaipur Literature Festival in London in 2021.
He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, a Master's in Advanced International Studies from the University of Vienna, and a certificate in International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.