Embassy of India, Bogota, Colombia : Ambassador Profile

Ambassador Profile

H.E. Shri Sanjiv Ranjan

Ambassador of India to Colombia and Ecuador

Born in 1966, Sanjiv Ranjan has done his B.A. (Hon.) Economics from Delhi University and M.A. in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He completed his ISC from St. Michaels School in Patna in 1985.

He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1993. He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Spanish.

Between 1995 and 2009, he held diplomatic positions in Indian Embassies in Madrid, Lima, and the Permanent Mission of India, New York interspersed with tenures at the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India. He served as Deputy High Commissioner of India to Mauritius from 2006 to 2009.

Since September 2009, he worked as Director (North) in the Ministry of External Affairs and in April 2012 he was appointed as Joint Secretary in the newly established Development Partnership Administration. In his last posting at the Ministry of External Affairs, he served as the Coordinator of the third India Africa Forum Summit held in New Delhi in October 2015.

Before joining here in Bogota, He served as Ambassador of India to Argentina with concurrent accreditation to Uruguay and Paraguay.

He is married and has one daughter. His interests include reading and music.

Previous Ambassadors
Name	From	To
Shri Ravi Bangar	31.10.2017	31.07.2019
Shri Prabhat Kumar	06.05.2014	25.10.2017
Shri Riewad V. Warjri	20.09.2010	28.02.2014
Shri Deepak K. Bhojwani	08.01.2007	12.08.2010
Smt Nilima Mitra	10.03.2003	15.12.2006
Shri Hemant Krishan Singh	13.09.1999	27.12.2002
Shri Pramatesh Rath	03.10.1994	16.07.1999
Shri G D Atuk	16.08.1989	01.01.1993
Shri Mukur Kanti Khisha	31.07.1985	19.04.1989
Shri Alfred W B Vaz	05.10.1980	19.01.1985
Shri Khiangte Chawngte Lalvunga	29.01.1977	24.08.1980
Shri Madanjeet Singh	17.02.1973	03.12.1976