Dr. Girija Vaidyanathan, Non-Executive Chairperson of TNIFMC, is currently the Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu and the senior-most officer of the Indian Administrative Service in Tamil Nadu.
Belonging to the 1981 batch of IAS, she has more than three decades of service with demonstrable experience in multiple areas such as, public finance, health and nutrition, environment, land administration and education departments.
She holds a Master of Science in Physics and a Doctorate in Health Economics from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. She is also a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst.