Mr. S Ananthanarayanan was a Financial Adviser and Chief Accounts Officer in Western Railway, Mumbai, in the grade of Additional Secretary to the Government of India and has also served as a member of the Railway Claims Tribunal in the grade of Special Secretary to the Government of India.
He is a science graduate with Master’s Degree in Physics and has various other degrees and qualifications which include PG Diploma (Public Administration), PG Diploma in Software Technology (PGDST), PG Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Law, Diploma in Cyber Laws, Bachelor of Law (LLB) and Certificate course on Arbitration.
He is currently on the panel of arbitrators of the Indian Council of Arbitration and the International Centre for Alternate Dispute Resolution, New Delhi and has also been a sole or joint arbitrator in fifteen matters and ‘adjudicator’ in two cases with Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation.
He has won the national award for ‘Excellence in Science Communication’ by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has also been an author for over 900 articles in print in different publications.