Dr. K.P. Krishnan
Dr. K.P. Krishnan served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) for 37 years and superannuated on 31 December 2019. During his IAS career, he held several senior positions in the Government of Karnataka, the Government of India, and at the World Bank.
In Karnataka, he served in key departments dealing with agriculture, cooperatives and marketing, urban development and infrastructure, commercial taxes, and finance, in addition to field positions such as District Collector, Mangalore.
His key roles in the Government of India included serving as Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship from 1 February 2017 to 31 December 2019; Special/ Additional Secretary, Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development during 2014–2017; Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance during 2013–2014; Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council during 2010–2012; and Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance during 2005–2010. In these roles, he also served on the boards of corporations, banks, and statutory regulatory authorities.
Parallel to his government career, Dr. Krishnan has had a distinguished academic and research profile. He has served as visiting faculty IIM Bangalore, the Indian School of Business (ISB), and Ashoka University, and held the prestigious Bok Visiting Professorship of Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School during 2012–13. From 7 August 2020 to 31 December 2021, he served as the IEPF Chair Professor of Economics at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. Subsequently, from February 2022 to February 2024, he served as Honorary Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi, and presently is a Distinguished Fellow at the Isaac Centre for Public Policy, Ashoka University.
At present, Dr. Krishnan is an Independent Director or advisory board member of several for‑profit and not‑for‑profit organisations, including Tata Consumer Products Limited, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Shriram Capital Private Limited, ASREC India Limited, Helios Trustee Private Limited, CUPDF, IIHS, the Razorpay Advisory Board, and the Sanmar Group Corporate Board, among others. He holds an academic background in Economics from St. Stephen’s College and Law from the Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi. He joined IIM Bangalore in 1999 and was awarded the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM/ Ph.D.) in Economics at the 2003 graduation ceremony.