Ranjit Rae

Ranjit Rae is a former Indian Ambassador to Nepal (2013-17). He has also served as the Head of Division dealing with Nepal and Bhutan in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. During his two tenures, he has had a ringside view of momentous developments in the contemporary history of Nepal, ranging from the royal coup of February 2005 and the peace process between the Maoists and political parties to the Great Nepalese Earthquake of 2015 and the adoption of the new Constitution of Nepal later that year. Rae has also been associated with UN Peacekeeping Operations both at the UN headquarters and in the field. He has also served as Ambassador to Vietnam and Hungary and has held important positions in the Ministry of External Affairs and the President’s Secretariat. His first book, partly a memoir, Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties, was published in 2021. His first job was as a Lecturer of Economics at St Stephen's College, Delhi University.