C. V. Ranganathan

C. V. Ranganathan (born 1935) is an Indian diplomat and statesman, who variously served as Counselor of the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, Joint Foreign Secretary, First Secretary to the Embassy of India in Bonn, Indian High Commissioner to Hong Kong, Indian Ambassador to Ethiopia, and the Deputy Chief of Mission at the rank of ambassador to the Soviet Union during Perestroika.

He was then the Indian Ambassador to China, during which he oversaw Rajiv Gandhi's landmark 1988 state visit to Beijing, and Ambassador to France. Following his retirement from the Indian Foreign Service in 1993, he was a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow and twice Convenor of India's National Security Advisory Board.

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