Hon'ble Shri. R. N. Ravi
The Governor of Tamilnadu and Chancellor of Bharathidasan University
Thiru. Ravindra Narayan Ravi born at Patna in Bihar did his
Masters in Physics in 1974. After a brief stint in journalism joined the
Indian Police Service in 1976 and was allotted to the Kerala Cadre. He
served in Kerala in various capacities including Districts for over a
decade and then in different parts of the country in various capacities.
While serving in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), he led
several anti-corruption crusades against organised criminal gangs
including the mining mafias in the country.
While in the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Ministry of Home Affairs,
Government of India, the premier intelligence agency of the country,
he served largely in theatres of insurgencies and violence including in
the Jammu & Kashmir, the North East and the Maoist infected
regions. He also specialised in the dynamics of human migration in
South Asia and worked extensively on the political sociology of
border population.
He has played crucial roles in conflict resolutions in areas
affected with ethnic insurgencies and brought several armed rebel
groups into peace. He was the architect of India’s international
cooperation in counter terrorism and intelligence sharing.
After retirement from Government service in 2012, he wrote
regular columns in national dailies.
He was appointed as the Chairman of Joint Intelligence
Committee in the Prime Minister’s Office, where as the Head of the
Intelligence Community, he co-ordinated and guided the agencies to
meet the National Security needs of the Country.
He was appointed as the Centre’s Interlocutor for the Naga
peace talks in August 2014. Within a short time he could achieve a
paradigm shift in the peace process by bringing the issue from
abroad to the land and its people and made it truly inclusive by
making the genuine stakeholders integral to it. Soon all the rebel
armed groups signed agreements for a settlement of the seven
decades old separatist insurgency within the Indian Union and the
ambit of the Constitutions of India, which could usher peace in
Nagaland and the rest of the North-East India. He was appointed as
Deputy National Security Advisor in October 2018.
He served as the Governor of Nagaland from 01st August 2019
till 16th September 2021. He has been appointed as the Governor of
Tamil Nadu by the Hon’ble President of India and assumed the office
as 26th Governor of Tamil Nadu on 18th September 2021.