Overview
- His three-year term began on November 17, 2025, marking a new leadership phase for IIT-Bombay’s governing board.
- He succeeds Sharad Saraf, the first IIT-Bombay alumnus to hold the post, who completed his three-year tenure this month.
- Radhakrishnan led ISRO from 2009 to 2014, a period that included the successful Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission, and he received the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
- He earlier chaired the IIT-Kanpur Board of Governors and headed Ministry of Education panels on overseas campuses in 2021, accreditation strengthening in 2022, and entrance-exam reform in 2024.
- He currently chairs DST expert committees for the SATHI and SAIF programmes and leads the Apex Review Committee for PAIR under the Anusandhan National Research Foundation.