| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Ranger of Northwood | |
| Office: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start: | 11 July 2023 Life peerage |
| Birth Name: | Kulveer Singh Ranger |
| Birth Date: | 21 February 1975 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Alma Mater: | University College London |
| Occupation: | Management consultant |
| Known For: | Developing the Oyster Card and the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme for London |
| Party: | Conservative |
Kulveer Singh Ranger, Baron Ranger of Northwood (born 21 February 1975)[1] is an English strategy and communications executive. A board member of the trade association techUK,[2] he has been a member of the House of Lords since 2023.
Ranger was the unsuccessful Conservative parliamentary candidate in Makerfield at the 2005 general election.[3] He unsuccessfully stood in the ward of Syon at the 2006 Hounslow London Borough Council election.[4]
After Boris Johnson's victory in the 2008 London mayoral election, Johnson selected Ranger to be his director for transport policy. Ranger had previously managed the implementation of the Oyster card with Transport for London in 2003.[5] In 2011, he became Director for Environment and Digital London, with his work resulting in a record fall in bike thefts,[6] in addition to a number of new electric car charging points in London to encourage a higher take up of electric vehicles.[7]
Ranger was part of the Conservative A-List for the 2010 general election but did not stand.[8] He was on the long list to be the Conservative party candidate for the 2021 London mayoral election.[9] [10]
Ranger was nominated for a life peerage in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.[11] On 11 July 2023, he was created Baron Ranger of Northwood, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster, and was introduced to the House of Lords on 20 July.[12]
In May 2024, the House of Lords Conduct Committee found that Ranger had drunkenly bullied and harassed two members of parliamentary staff in the House of Commons Strangers' Bar in January 2024. The committee recommended that Ranger be suspended for three weeks and denied access to the bars of the House of Lords for twelve months.[13] Ranger resigned the Conservative whip in the Lords and sat as a non-affiliated peer.[14] [15] The committee's recommendations were approved by the House of Lords on 18 July.[16] Following his suspension, the Conservative whip was restored to Ranger on 9 August.
Ranger is a Sikh, born in Hammersmith in West London, the son of Indian parents. His grandfather Gurnam Singh Sahni set up the first British-Asian newspaper, The Punjab Times, in the mid-1960s.[17]
Ranger gained an honours degree in architecture from University College London. He also has a business diploma from Kingston Business School.[18]