Veena Sikri is a retired Indian diplomat, academic, and former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh,[1][2] a role that she is the only woman to have performed.
also an officer of the same batch as her, resigned from the Indian Foreign Service for the same reason earlier.
[6][7][8] From 2008 to 2011, Sikri was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies based in Singapore.
[5] She co-edited Contemporarising Tagore and the World with Muchkund Dubey and Imtiaz Ahmed.
[11][12] She appreciated the Indian government maintaining a neutral position during the 2024 Quota reform movement in Bangladesh.