National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad has hired bureaucrat and former Chief Secretary (Haryana) Dr TVSN Prasad and Chevening Scholar and noted academician Prof Sitharamam Kakarla as Professors.

Dr Prasad joined the Indian Administrative Services in 1988 and has served as Lead Infrastructure Coordinator and Senior Economist at the World Bank in Washington DC. He was also Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs and set up India's Sustainable Development Goals Coordination Centre and Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems project. He has joined NALSAR as Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy.

Prof Kakarla is a former faculty at Azim Premji University, National Law School of India (NLSIU), Bengaluru and National Law University, Delhi, where he taught Human Rights Law, Constitutionalism and several interdisciplinary legal studies. He received the British Chevening Fellowship in Human Rights Law (1995-96) and the Commonwealth Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Human Rights Law (2000-01) from Warwick Law School.

Welcoming them to the University, NALSAR Vice-Chancellor Prof Krishna Deva Rao said,

"These two appointments add great value to the academic world of NALSAR especially in the areas of teaching and research in the areas of Law, Human Rights and Public policy in the coming years."