A native of New York and a career diplomat since 1992, Mr.Ranz is the Consul General of the United States of America in Mumbai. A member of the Senior Foreign Service, Mr.Ranz previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives) in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs; and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Pakistan. Prior to that, Mr.Ranz was Director of the Office of Pakistan Affairs. Mr.Ranz’s previous assignments include Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, and Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt; and Spokesman and Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Mr.Ranz has also served in Rabat, Morocco; Jerusalem; and Karachi, Pakistan.
Mr.Ranz was the 2004 recipient of the U.S. Department of State’s Herbert SalzmanAward for International Economic Performance, and 2013 runner-up for the James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence. Mr.Ranz has also received six State Department Superior Honor Awards, and a U.S. Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Public Service from General (ret.) David Petraeus. Mr.Ranz graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and received a Master in Public Policy degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2005. Mr.Ranz is married to Taly Lind, a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, and has two children. He speaks Arabic, French, and Hebrew.