Smt. Minu Pramod, assumed charge as Registrar, IIST on 1st October, 2026. Before joining IIST she was a distinguished Officer from the 1997 batch of the Indian Civil Service (IRS- Customs and Indirect Taxes). A gold medalist Post Graduate in Biology, she also holds a distinction in MBA (HR) and brings with her near three decades of multifaceted administrative and leadership experience across India's indirect tax and public governance architecture.