Shailaja Chandra

Ms. Shailaja Chandra has spent over 15 years in health sector and was a Secretary in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and later she was appointed as first women Chief Secretary of Delhi.

Ms. Shailaja Chandra has been a career civil servant ( a member of the Indian Administrative Service,) for 38 years followed by a series of post-retirement assignments carrying executive responsibilities. During her long service career in the Central Government, she was posted over three tenures with the Ministries of Defence, Power and Health. At the state level, Ms. Chandra was posted across the country in Maharashtra, Manipur, Goa, Delhi and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.