Vijayendra Nath Kaul was the tenth Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) from 2002 to 2008.
His great grandfather Rai Bahadur Radha Kishen Kaul was the Judicial Minister and later High Court Judge of Jammu & Kashmir up to 1913.
[6] His grandfather Pandit Narendra Nath Kaul, an early Indian Cantabrigian, was the Revenue Minister of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir.
(Hons) and master's degrees from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi in 1964 and he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1965.
He served in the Indian Administrative Service up to 2002 and retired as Secretary,[9] Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on being appointed the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
He was Regional Adviser, Trade Policy with United Nations-ESCAP at Bangkok, Thailand from 1991 to 1998.
[28] He has been a member of the Eminent Persons Advisory Group[29] of the Competition Commission of India[30][31][32] Kaul was also a member of the Oversight Committee constituted in February 2013 for monetisation of immovable assets [33] of Air India and to advise on the process of valuation and sale of saleable assets of the Airline.