Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India, and working internationally. He is a dancer-choreographer-director, curator-presenter, and arts researcher-writer. Co-founder and artistic director of the performance company Ranan, he also initiated and leads the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His oeuvre spans practice, discourse, critique, ideation and management, revolving around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of ISPA (International Society for the Performing Arts), and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar (2015) from Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance.