The Institute is managed by a five-member Executive Council functioning under the guidance and directions of a nine-member Board of Directors elected by the members of the Institute. KSI has the advantage of availing non-remunerative services of members of KSI who are in service.The present Board of Directors and their background are given below:
Board of Directors
Dr. P S Nair
President
Kerala Statistical Institute
Formerly: Professor & Head, Dept. of Population Studies. University of Botswana Professor & Head, Dept. of Demography, University of Kerala Director, Population Research Centre, University of Kerala Visiting Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Manitoba Associate Professor, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay Visiting Research Fellow in Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, The Netherlands.
Qualifications: M.Sc. (Demography), MA (Economics), B.Sc. (Mathematics and Statistics), PhD in Sociology-Demography from Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium A total of 80 articles were published in refereed International and Indian Journals apart from 3 books and 3 international monographs, numerous reports and working papers. During the teaching and research career, 24 PhD, 10 M.Phil and 41 Masters Dissertations were supervised. Member of 4 international and 4 Indian professional Associations.
Expertise: Demography and Population studies
Shri. Sreekumar B.
Executive Chairman
Kerala Statistical Institute
Formerly: Director, Department of Economics & Statistics, Government of Kerala.
Qualifications: MSC (Statistics), MPhil (Statistics), Certificate in Computing (IGNOU), Microsoft Certified Professional, Post Graduate Diploma in English for Communication from Institute of English, University of Kerala.
Expertise: Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation, Sustainable Development Goals, Research Methodology, Training, Sampling, Data Analysis, Report writing
Dr. Aleyamma Mathew
Executive Director
Kerala Statistical Institute
Present: Professor & Head of the Cancer Epidemiology & Biostatistics Division of Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), Thiruvananthapuram as well as the PhD Co-ordinator of RCC, Thiruvananthapuram.
Past: Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences (FAMS), New Delhi;
Principal Investigator of the Hospital-Based Cancer Registry
(HBCR), RCC and Population-Based Cancer Registry, South Kerala covering a population of nearly10 million.
Received “Cancer Foundation Finland Prize of 5000 Euros” in 2023, for promoting population-based cancer registration and related epidemiological research in India;
Worked as Post-Doctoral scientist in the National Cancer Institute, US;
Scientific Committee expert for the National Cancer Registry Programme of ICMR;
Served as Regional Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention and as Country representative for Asia Pacific Organization of Cancer Prevention;
Received International fellowships from NCI, USA; IARC, France, Finland, UK, Canada, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, The Netherlands and Queens University, Canada;
Research Guide in Epidemiology and Statistics:
Six students (3 in Epidemiology and 3 in Statistics received doctoral degree).
Currently guiding 9 students in Epidemiology/Statistics/ Biostatistics.
Provided Guidance for more than 90 Post-graduate students in Biostatistics for their thesis;
Research publications: 140 in Indexed Journals and Chapter in Books: 8
Contributed a chapter “Transitions of Cancer in Populations World-wide” in the Encyclopedia of cancer, 3rd edition, Elsevier publications;
National Mentor for the GBD (Global Burden of Disease) study
Qualifications: Dual PhD (in Epidemiology from Finland and in Statistics from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala)
36 years of experience in Cancer registry, Cancer Epidemiology and Biostatistics;
Expertise: Cancer registry, Cancer Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Shri. M Somasekharan Pillai
Secretary
Kerala Statistical Institute
Formerly: Retired, Associate Professor & Head, Department of Statistics, University College, Thiruvananthapuram.
Qualifications: M.Sc. (Statistics)
Expertise: Sampling & Experimental Designs, Statistical Data Analysis using SPSS and R.
Shri. S Rajasekhar
Director
Kerala Statistical Institute
Formerly: Joint Director, Kerala State Planning Board
Qualifications: Postgraduate in Economics
Expertise: Planning and Evaluation – Education and Health sectors, Scheduled Caste Development, Local Self Government – Local Bodies
Dr. G. Chandramohan
Director
Kerala Statistical Institute
Formerly: Director – CET School of Management, College of Engineering Trivandrum,
Director, Cooperative Institute of Management and Technology (CIMAT), Thiruvananthapuram,
Director, Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies (KITTS), Government of Kerala
Deputy Chief Project Coordinator, National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC)
Urban Economist, Beeah Group Consultants, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Qualifications: M.Sc. (Statistics), M.A. (Economics), M.B.A., Ph.D. (Management Studies)
Expertise: Traffic and transportation studies, Tourism studies, Feasibility analysis, Project evaluation, Project appraisal, Developing strategies and actions, Analytics
Dr. Nagarajan Naidu
Director
Kerala Statistical Institute
Formerly: Associate Professor and Head, Department of Economics, University College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Qualifications: MA, PhD (Economics), MBA (Finance), Master of Regional Planning (M.R.P), PGDCA
Expertise: Public Finance, Decentralised/regional planning, Econometrics, Labour Economics, Data Analysis
Dr. P K Sureshkumar
Director
Kerala Statistical Institute
Formerly: Assistant Librarian and Research Guide in the Kerala University Library, Thiruvananthapuram.
Qualifications: B.Ed (Mathematics), M.Sc. (Demography), MPhil (Demography), M L I Sc., PhD (Library and Information Science), PGDCA (Computer Science)
Expertise: Demography and Library Science, Data Analysis using SPSS
Shri. Rajendra Prasad
Director
Kerala Statistical Institute
Formerly: Deputy Director, Department of Economics and Statistics, Govt. of Kerala.