Rajkumar Chellaraj

Rajkumar Chellaraj is a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Hoover Institution and to the President of Stanford University on Finance and Operations. Previously, he was the CFO and Administrative Dean at the Stanford Business School, Stanford University. Concurrently, he was also the Chief Operating Officer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford Seed program with primary focus in Africa and India from 2015 to 2017. He is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Administration at the US State Department from 2006 to 2009 under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. After leaving the US Government, he worked as Vice President, Planning for Hostess Brands, an American-based bakery company.

He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, formerly Madras University, where he graduated first in his class and also received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2013. He then immigrated to the United States and studied at Clarkson University, receiving a master's degree in chemical engineering. He later attended New York University receiving an M.B.A. and then Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, receiving an M.P.A. He attended the London Business School, International Management Exchange Program and studied French at the Sorbonne in Paris.