Veteran Indian Police Service official with over three decades of experience in senior leadership roles in public policy, police science, leadership and management; driving systemic, sustainable solutions towards law enforcement in society nationally and internationally.

• Professor of Practice, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras August 2023 – Present
• Indian Police Service. Various ranks include: June 1991 – April 2023
• Director General of Police - Head of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption for Tamil Nadu (TN)
• Investigate and prosecute acts of corruption involving state government officials and advise the Government on various issues relating to corruption and steps to prevent corruption
• Additional Director General of Police - Head of Administration and Human Resources of Police Department
• Managed police training institutions
• Implemented e-office project for improved governance for inter and intra government processes
• Ensured expeditious redressal of grievance especially pertaining to promotion and posting of officers
• Additional Director General of Police – Technical Services
• Designed and established State Police Master Control Room and Cyber Police Stations in TN
• Converted the present analog TN Police Telecommunication network to Digital
• Organized training on Cybersecurity for Technical Officers in collaboration with IIT Madras
• Joint Director and Deputy Inspector General of Police of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
• Investigated and prosecuted sensitive corruption and financial crimes of national importance
• Supervised the investigation of cases of sensitive homicide referred by Supreme Court of India
• Commissioner of Police and Chief of Police Districts
• Lead over 2000 police personnel in the enforcement of law and order in various cities and districts
• United Nations Peace Keeping Force July 1998 - July 1999
• Chief of Personnel, United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mostar
• Managed Human Resources of UN’s International Police Task Force in Bosnia
• Indian Police Service. Various ranks include: June 1991 – April 2023
• Graduate Trainee in Engineering Management
• Completed comprehensive training program covering the engineering and management of steel production in an integrated steel plant

• During the years of service in the Indian Police Service in various leadership positions that I have held, I have been able to share my academic and professional training of Public Administration, Police Science, National Security, Criminology, Law, and Technology with senior police officials of the Indian Police Service and bureaucrats at India's preeminent police training institutions. I have extensive experience in teaching the following areas:

- Technology for Policing

- Public Administration

- Cost benefit analysis of Government Schemes

- Crisis Management - The Evolving Role of Leadership

- Combating Corruption

- Graduate Student Instructor in Physics Department 2013-2014 for undergraduate course in UC Berkeley

• Mentored over 12 students from the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and other educational institutes in Chennai, who benefitted as collaborative researchers in publications and gained admission to graduate programs in prestigious US schools
• Was a Graduate Student Instructor for three semesters Physics 8A in Physics Department, University of California Berkeley, CA during 2013-2014

• Paramasivan,K., et al., (2023). Resilience of hospital and allied infrastructure during pandemic and post pandemic periods for maternal health care of pregnant women and infants in Tamil Nadu, India ‐ A counterfactual analysis. PLoS ONE 18(9): e0291749. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291749
• Paramasivan,K., et al., (2023). Prolonged school closure during the pandemic time in successive waves of COVID-19- vulnerability of children to sexual abuses - A case study in Tamil Nadu, India.Heliyon,9(7), e17865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17865
• Paramasivan, K., et al., (2022). Crime registration and distress calls during COVID-19: two sides of the coin. Policing and Society, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.2023526
• Paramasivan, K., et al., (2022). Relationship between mobility and road traffic injuries during COVID-19 pandemic—The role of attendant factors.PloS one,17(5), e0268190. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268190
• Paramasivan,K., et al., (2022). Empirical evidence of the impact of mobility on property crimes during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. NATURE-Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9, 373 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01393-0
• Paramasivan,K., et al., (2022). Counterfactual analysis of the impact of the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting and registration of missing people in India.NATURE-Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9, 408 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01426-8
• Paramasivan, K., et al., (2021). Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on road safety in Tamil Nadu, India. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2021.2007134

• United Nations Medal for services rendered in UN Mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina 1999
• President of India Medal for meritorious services 2005
• Chief Ministers’ Award for Excellence in Public Service 2019
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award-2013 2014 University of California, Berkeley

REPRESENTING INDIA ABROAD

LEEDS-US-India Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, Los Angeles, CA, USA April 2011

• Established liaison with different agencies regarding the handling of global terrorism

Interpol’s International Conference on People Smuggling, Lyon October 2010

• Made suggestions to formulate policy and procedures to prevent people smuggling

United Nations Convention on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Vienna April 2008

• Presented the views of India on how to combat crimes against women