Veena Sikri

Veena Sikri is a retired Indian diplomat, academic, and former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh, a role that she is the only woman to have performed. She is a professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, a university in New Delhi. She completed her bachelor's degree in statistics from the University of Pune in 1967. From 1977 to 1981, she was stationed at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. Her husband Rajiv Sikri. also an officer of the same batch as her, resigned from the Indian Foreign Service for the same reason earlier.

From 2008 to 2011, Sikri was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies based in Singapore. She is the convenor of South Asia Women Network. She appreciated the Indian government maintaining a neutral position during the 2024 Quota reform movement in Bangladesh.

Personal life Sikri's husband, Rajiv Sikri, was also a diplomat of India.