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Padamvir Singh, IAS (1977: Madhya Pradesh)DirectorBorn on 16th February 1954, he did his schooling from the Doon School,Dehradun. He graduated in Economics Honours from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.Thereafter, after pursuing post graduate studies in Philosophy and Politics, hejoined the Indian Administrative Service in 1977 and was allocated to the state ofMadhya Pradesh. He was a fellow at MIT, Boston in 1992. He took over as theDirector of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration inSeptember 2009. Prior to that, he was the Special Director and the Joint Director.He was earlier Principal Secretary, Public Works Department and InformationTechnology in the Government of Madhya Pradesh. He has also worked asSecretary to the State Government, Head of Department, Managing Director ofPublic Sector Undertakings and District Magistrate. He has served as Director ofthe Madhya Pradesh Academy of Administration and as Secretary of the IndianInstitute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His academic interests are in governance,administrative reforms, Total Quality Management, institution building, training,ethics, philosophy and psychology. Personal interests and leisure pursuits extendto reading, computers, painting, photography, music, tennis, badminton and yoga.He is married and has two children.Kush Verma, IAS (1979: Uttar Pradesh)Executive DirectorJoined NIAR, LBSNAA as Director General on 2nd August, 2010. Prior to joiningNIAR, he has held various assignments in Government of Uttar Pradesh as well asGovernment of India namely Asstt. Collector & Sub-Divisional Magistrate, RaiBareily & Pratapgarh, City Magistrate, Mathura, District Magistrate, Uttarkashi,Managing Director, UP State Food & Essential Commodities Corporation,Lucknow, Secretary (Energy), Food Commissioner, Secretary, Home &Confidential Affairs, Zonal Manager (North), Food Corporation of India, ExecutiveDirector, Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of IndiaLtd.(TRIFED) and Principal Secretary, Administrative Reforms, Government of32