K. Pradeep Chandra

K. Pradeep Chandra is an IIT-Madras graduate. He also holds an MBA from IIM-Calcutta and a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 1982, he was selected for the Indian Administrative Services and allotted to the Andhra Pradesh cadre. His academic and governance interests are ethics in public administration, access of public services to the common man, and citizen participation in governance. His professional roles include chief rationing officer; director of technical education; managing director of the Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Castes Cooperative Finance Corporation; and special chief secretary in the industries and commerce, finance and revenue departments of the Government of Telangana. The highly acclaimed industrial policy TS-iPASS was prepared under his leadership. It enabled Telangana to be ranked No.1 in the World Bank/Government of India's 'Ease of Doing Business' rankings. He retired as the chief secretary of Telangana on 31 December 2016.