Sri Burra Venkatesham, IAS

Sri Burra Venkatesham Goud is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and assumed office as Education department Principal Secretary and also full additional charge as Collegiate Education Commissioner on 18 December 2023. Sri Venkatesham Goud completed his BA from the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College, Hyderabad, in 1989 and LLB from Osmania University, Hyderabad, in 1992. In 2014, he was appointed in the three-member team of senior IAS officers for the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Committee. For the implementation of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, he was responsible for the Agriculture, Horticulture, Sericulture, Civil Supplies, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development, Backward Castes Welfare, Minorities Welfare, Social Welfare, Tribal Welfare, and Rain Shadow Area Development Secretariat departments. In 2019 he authored the book, Selfie of Success and was named “Person of the Year” by the Creative India magazine in the same year.