T.V.S.N. Prasad

About Me

Dr. T.V.S.N. Prasad (Prasad V.S.N. Tallapragada) (born 14 October 1964) is an economist and retired Indian Administrative Service officer, who served as the Chief Secretary of Government of Haryana. Currently, he is a distinguished professor of economics and public policy at NALSAR Law University, Hyderabad.

He has several publications to his credit on economic issues related to monetary and fiscal policies. He completed his PhD in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was an Edward S. Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management and a John Kenneth Galbraith Scholar in Infrastructure Economics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He later served as Lead Infrastructure Coordinator at the World Bank for several years, crafting its policies on power, oil and gas sectors, national economic policies, investments, and infrastructure expansion.

Early Life and Education

Prasad was born in a Telugu family from East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. His father, Hon’ble Mr. Justice T.H.B. Chalapathi, served as a Hon’ble Judge in the Andhra Pradesh High Court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He completed his schooling from Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet. He obtained his graduation in Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. He later went on to study at Harvard University, where he earned a Masters in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on an Edward S. Mason Fellowship. He recently completed his PhD in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Career

Prasad joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1988 in the Haryana Cadre. As an IAS officer, he held numerous positions, such as Deputy Commissioner, Rohtak and Kurukshetra, founding Chairman and Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh Central Power Distribution Company, Chief Administrator, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, and Principal Secretary, Department of Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs, Government of Haryana. During his stint in the Central Government between 2014 and 2018, Prasad served as Mission Director in the National Mission for Clean Ganga and Joint Secretary (later as Additional Secretary) in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

He has several publications to his credit on economic issues related to monetary and fiscal policies. He completed his PhD in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was an Edward S. Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management and a John Kenneth Galbraith Scholar in Infrastructure Economics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He later served as Lead Infrastructure Coordinator at the World Bank for several years, crafting its policies on power, oil and gas sectors, national economic policies, investments, and infrastructure expansion. He worked in the Government of India as Mission Director of National Mission of Clean Ganga, and later as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs.