T.R. Raghunandan

Raghunandan is a consultant in decentralization, anti-corruption and heritage conservation. Formerly in the Indian Administrative Service, he quit the IAS in 2010 after twenty-seven years in order to concentrate on his pet passions of strengthening local democracy and local governments and working on anti-corruption. He currently handles several national and international assignments, including adviser to the accountability initiative of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and adviser to Login Asia, a network of practitioners in decentralization from countries in south, central and south-east Asia. He is an avid scale model maker, industrial heritage archivist, steam railway enthusiast and classic automobile restorer. He lives in Bengaluru with his wife, Aditi.