Shri S. Machendranathan, took over as Chairperson, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India on 9^th March, 2015. 

Shri Machendranathan who hails from Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu had a distinguished academic career. After completing MBA from Cochin University, he joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1977 and thereafter the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1979.

An IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, Shri S. Machendranathan held several important positions in the Government of Tamil Nadu and in the Government of India.  In the Government of Tamil Nadu, he worked as Collector of Thanjavur District; Commissioner/ Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu in the Departments of Transport, Food, Cooperation and Consumer Protection; Chairman of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.  And in the Government of India, he worked as Chairman of Tuticorin Port Trust; Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor in the Ministry of Steel as well as in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and finally as Secretary (Coordination) in Cabinet Secretariat, before superannuating from the Government Service in March, 2014. 

He has also served as Government Director in several Public Sector companies such as Air India, Airports Authority of India, Steel Authority of India Limited, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited and Metallurgical & Engineering Consultants (India) Limited. 

Shri. Yashwant S Bhave

Shri Yashwant S Bhave, a retired IAS Officer (1972 batch, Maharashtra Cadre), a Master in Science with Electronics as a specialization and Master in Public Administration from the Harvard University, had taken over as the first Chairperson of Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) with effect from 1st August, 2009.

At the time of joining AERA Shri Bhave had over 37 years of experience in different capacities, various important portfolios in the Government of Maharashtra such as CEO of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, M.D. of State Principal Corporation, Chairman of State Electricity Board, Development Commission (Industries), Principal Secretary Department of Industry in the Government of India and other number of important positions in the Departments of Information Technology, Administrative Reforms, Pensions & Public Grievances as well as Special Secretary, Telecom and Secretary and Telecom Commission. His last position, prior to appointment as Chairperson AERA, was Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India. He completed his tenure in AERA on 15^th July 2014.

Shri Sandeep Prakash

Shri Sandeep Prakash is an officer of Indian Revenue Service (C&CE), 1990 Batch. He has done his post graduate in Production Engineering from IIT, Madras and graduation in Law from Delhi University. He had joined as Secretary, AERA on 15th May, 2009, and worked as such till 31st August 2011.

Shri Alok Shekhar

Shri Alok Shekhar an IAS officer of the 1994 batch, (Punjab Cadre) took over as Secretary, AERA on 10th October 2013. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Kanpur and a post Graduate qualification in Public Administration from Syracuse University, USA.

Shri Shekhar has over nineteen years of diverse experience in various capacities both within his cadre as well as at the centre. His assignments within the cadre enriched him with significant experience in Land Revenue Management and Distt. Administration. His Central deputation during the period 2008 to 2012 afforded him ample opportunity to handle various portfolios in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, including the Airport sector. Prior to taking over as Secretary, AERA, Shri Shekhar was PS to Minister of State for External Affairs.

Shri Shankar Narayanaswamy

Member

Shri N. Shankar was the Executive Director of Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) for over six years. Shri Shankar was the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of ECGC Ltd. (formerly Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd.), in Additional Secretary Grade of Central Government on deputation, from Exim Bank for 3 years from October 2011 to October 2014 and during the same period he was a Director of Exim Bank. Mr. Shankar has put in over 39 years of varied experience in financial sector comprising 6 years in Indian Public sector banks and over 30 years in Exim Bank and 3 years in ECGC Ltd. He has been with Exim Bank since the inception of the Institution. Shri Shankar has top level experience in term landing, international trade financing and export credit insurance. Shri Shankar’s specialization and experience encompass corporate credit, SME credit, raising funds in domestic/international markets, export credit insurance, integrated treasury, risk management, MIS, IT, corporate accounts and regulatory compliances.

Shri Shankar, a Mathematics Rank holder in graduation from Madras University is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) from ICFAI.

Shri Shankar was involved in Institution building in challenging times. His proven expertise includes negotiation skills, framing policies and procedures, implementation of robust systems and controls, shaping and implementing new initiatives especially in Brand Building, Human Resources Management, Information Technology and expanding network of Offices in India.

 Shri M. P. Vijaya Kumar

Shri M. P. Vijaya Kumar, former Executive Director (Fleet and Network Planning), Air India, had joined as Member, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India on 11.03.2010. During the last three decades of his service in India Airlines initially, and later in Air India after the merger of the two Airlines, he had  been responsible for several airline management functions such as traffic forecasting, airline network development, flight scheduling, co-ordination with airports, fleet modernization, economic analysis and MIS development.

Shri. M. P. Vijayakumar holds a M.Sc. degree in Physics with Electronics as specialization and also done a M.Sc. degree in Statistics with specialization in Operations Research. He had completed his tenure in AERA on 17^th September 2012.

Capt (Retd) Kapil Chaudhary

Capt (Retd) Kapil Chaudhary, an IRS Officer (2001 batch), a Bachelor & Master of Science with Computer Science as specialization, has also done LLB from Chaudhary Charan Singh University and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Symbiosis Institute with two specializations. She joined AERA as Director (Legal) in March 2011 and worked as such till 25th April 2014. In between she was also assigned the additional charge of Secretary.