Education
Kapur received a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1977 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. In 1979, he received a Master of Technology in Management and Systems from IIT, Kanpur.
Kapur received a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1977 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. In 1979, he received a Master of Technology in Management and Systems from IIT, Kanpur.
Described as a "luminary" diplomat, he was first in his batch to be appointed as Ambassador in the year 2000. He served first as India’s ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia and later as ambassador to the Republic of Chile. As a career Indian Foreign Service officer from 1979 to 2013, Kapur held many government posts both in India and abroad.
From April 2001 to January 2005 he was the Indian ambassador to Cambodia.
From October 2007 through January 2009, he was joint Secretary of the Foreign Service Institute in New Delhi. From January 2009 to December 2013 he was the Indian ambassador to Chile.