[3] His interests include tennis, golf, bridge and reading.

[3] He is married to Preeti Saran, who also belongs to the Indian Foreign Service.

[3] Pankaj Saran joined the Indian Foreign Service in August 1982.

[9] He has served at Indian missions in Moscow, Washington, D.C., Cairo and Dhaka.

[11] Saran was the Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh in 2015 when the historic India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement was ratified by the Parliament of India.