On May 25, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Gautam A. Rana as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary. On May 26, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Gautam Rana is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Counselor. He currently serves as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Algeria and is the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim from August 2020 to February 2022. Previously, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Among other positions, Rana was Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff and the Deputy Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. Rana also served as the Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. He worked in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the UAE.
Rana earned B.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from the Vanderbilt University School of Law, and an M.A. from the National Defense University. He speaks Hindi, Spanish, and Gujarati.
