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Indian diplomat and statesman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
C. V. Ranganathan (born 1935) is an Indian diplomat and statesman, who variously served as Joint Foreign Secretary, Indian High Commissioner to Hong Kong, and Indian ambassador to Ethiopia, before being appointed to oversee Perestroika as Ambassador to the Soviet Union.[clarification needed][1]
He was then the Indian Ambassador to China, during which he oversaw Rajiv Gandhi's landmark 1988 state visit to Beijing,[2] Ambassador to France, and Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. Following his retirement from the Indian Foreign Service, he was a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow and twice Convenor of India's National Security Advisory Board.[3]
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