Sri Jayesh Ranjan
IAS, Principal Secretary Department of ITE&C and Department of Industries & Commerce
Mr. Jayesh Ranjan is a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the 1992 batch and working in
the state of Telangana. He holds a Masters Degree in Psychology from Delhi University, a degree in
Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Masters in Public Management
from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He has also done short
courses in the University of Birmingham (on Environmental Policy Analysis), JICA training Institute, Tokyo
(on lake remediation), London School of Economics (on Globalization and Leadership), Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University (in Public Policy), and Swedish Institute, Stockholm (on Sustainability and
CSR). He is the All-India topper of his IAS batch of 1992.
He was awarded World Bank’s Social Capital Visiting Scholarship in 2002 and the British Government’s
Gurukul Chevening Scholarship in 2005. He has done international consultancy assignments for the World
Bank, UN-ESCAP, Sedatu project of Mexico, and for international NGOs working for Youth Issues like YES,
Inc of the USA and NMC from Italy. He is a part of the National Pool of Trainers in Leadership constituted
by the Government of India, and is involved in training and mentoring newly recruited Civil Servants.
Among his other distinctions, he was awarded the Royal Order of the Polar Star by His Majesty The King of
Sweden in 2019 for promoting Swedish business interests in India including the opening of IKEA’s first
Indian store in Hyderabad. He has also been awarded Honorary Doctorate from University of Bolton (UK) in
2022 for promoting bilateral trade and investments between UK and Telangana.
Jayesh Ranjan is the Principal Secretary of the Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology
(IT) Departments of the Telangana government. His assignment involves developing policy frameworks,
attracting new investments, identifying opportunities for utilizing IT in various government processes,
and promoting the digital empowerment of the citizens