Dr. Samuel Paul is an Indian scholar, economist, former visiting professor at Harvard Business School, advisor to the World Bank and the UN Commission on Transnational Corporations, and was a professor and the second director of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He served from 08.09.72 to 30.06.78. He has also taught at the Kennedy School of Government and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University. Upon his return from Washington to India, he pioneered the creation of citizen report cards, a tool for social accountability. He later went on to be the founding chairperson of a new think tank, the Public Affairs Centre that has taken his work forward. Other organizations that he helped launch are the Public Affairs Foundation, the Coalition Against Corruption and the Children's Movement for Civic Awareness. He has also been on the Boards of the State Bank of India and several international research centers. In recent years, his focus has been on public governance and related issues. He is the first Asian to be awarded the Jit Gill Memorial Award by the World Bank, in 2006. 

April 11th, 1930 in Nagercoil (Age 94)