P. N. Roy Chowdhury is Director General of Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration, Ahmedabad. He taught mathematics at the undergraduate level in the Rahara College, managed by the Rama Krishna Mission, and later joined the IAS, serving the Government of Gujarat in various capacities. He has studied for his MSc Finance degree at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, and at the University of Rochester, USA, for an MBA programme.