Dinesh K. Patnaik

Dinesh K. Patnaik is an Indian Foreign Service officer from the 1990 cadre currently serving as Ambassador of India to Spain.

Career
Patnaik served as India's Ambassador to Cambodia from September 2012 to August 2015, then to Morocco between September 2015 and August 2016. 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). He became Ambassador of India to Spain in December 2021.

Patnaik spoke at the Jaipur Literature Festival in London in 2021.

Personal life
Patnaik is from Odisha state. 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. Patnaik and his wife Poonam have two daughters.