Indian Administrative Fellowship (IAF) is an 18-month program for high achievers from the private sector to impact millions of lives by extending the reach and efficiency of large scale government programs under the guidance of visionary civil servants.
The program targets to provide a platform for senior professionals to partner with the administration for extensively strategizing and implementing current and envisaged programs for attaining sustained progress across state-level development indicators.
A program to augment capacity of highly motivated, visionary civil servants
with executive talent steering large-scale govt programs of strategic relevance.
Executive talent with proven leadership in technological innovation, problem-solving and large scale transformation
Visionary Civil Servants in the state leadership
India's leading academic institutions, tech organisations, civil servants, and industry leaders
Accelerated adoption of innovation and systems change
Amplifying impact through focused & collaborative governance
Create avenues for top talent to solve developmental problems
Fellow’s onboarding | Context setting on administrative conduct, Program design &execution framework | Department specific orientation | Project planning
Project execution with quarterly reviews with steering committee | On-ground visits for a multifaceted understanding of the problem & implementable solutions | Phase based development workshops & mentor sessions
Consolidating project outcomes & learnings | Strongly integrating the program into the department | Impact showcase across channels | Transition
Senior private sector professionals working on large scale govt programs of strategic relevance.
Senior Secretary-level officers ensuring program formulation and execution rigor and oversight
Administrative oversight, stakeholder access and alignment, and conflict resolution; headed by high power steering committee
Dr Krishnan leads a group focused on research and policy outreach in the broad area of regulatory and public economics, including concerns about investor protection and financial sector reforms, land policy and records, public finance and public administration, and law, economics, and justice. He Joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983 and has served in various field and secretariat positions in India. Trained in economics, finance, and law, Dr Krishnan has chaired or served as a member of several GoI committees. He has taught as a visiting professor at the ISB, at Ashoka University, etc. & he regularly lectures at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie. He has published on a range of public policy issues in books, journals, and the mainstream media. Dr Krishnan holds a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from St Stephen’s College and an LL.B. degree from the University of Delhi, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Mysore, and a FPM/Ph.D. in Economics & Finance from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Electronics engineer from IIT Kanpur, MBA from IIM Calcutta and PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University USA, Dr Rajesh Tandon founded Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) in 1982 as a global research and training centre in promoting participatory research & development and accountable governance. Globally recognised civil society leader, Dr Tandon co-founded CIVICUS, Citizens & Governance Programme (Commonwealth), International Forum for Capacity Building of Civil Society. Under his leadership, PRIA conducted first ever studies of the non-profit sector, governance and management of civil society and civil society state relations. He has authored more than 100 books and articles on these themes. Since 2012, Dr Tandon is UNESCO Co-Chair on Social Responsibility in Higher Education, and has served on UGC, UNDP, World Bank and other expert committees of the government. He currently serves as Chairperson of Forum for India’s Development Cooperation, a partnership platform with Ministry of External Affairs, GOI.
Dr. S. S. Meenakshisundaram is a Post Graduate in Mathematics from Loyola College, Madras and holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from Jamia Milia Islamia National University, New Delhi. During his career in the Karnataka cadre of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) he had held a number of assignments including Deputy Commissioner of Tumkur and Bangalore districts, Director of Sericulture, Managing Director of Karnataka Milk Federation and Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom for one year. Besides several articles and papers on Governance, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, he has also published a book on "Decentralization in Developing Countries" during 1994. His second book on Empowerment of rural women was published in 2017. After working as Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Karnataka and Joint Secretary to three Prime Ministers of India, he served as an Adviser in the Planning Commission and Secretary in the Ministries of Rural Development and Disinvestment Govt. of India. He was also the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Board, Karnataka during 2007-08. Currently he is the Chairman of MYRADA, a voluntary organization in the field of building people's institutions for development and a Visiting Professor at Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Gandhigram Rural University and National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore. He is also the Chairman of the India Wash Forum and a member of the Karnataka State Policy and Planning Commission and the Academic Council for the Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University, Gadag.
Saru Tumuluri has over twenty years of experience in a wide range of leadership roles including P&L ownership, business development, product innovation, team building, strategic partnerships at a govt & global level, cross-functional team management. She currently heads Strategic Partnerships & Corporate Affairs at Navi Technologies. Prior to this, she served as the CEO of Khosla Labs. She founded Veri5Digital (Khosla Labs) which is a Digital Identity, KYC, and Digital Transformation SAAS platform. She is the Indian ambassador for “Women in Identity''. She is an alumna of Management Programme for Women Entrepreneurs by IIM Bangalore and a graduate from Gujarat University.
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