[1][5][6][7] Naresh Chandra served as a lecturer in the Allahabad University before his selection as an IAS officer.

[1][5][6][7][8] Naresh Chandra also served as an Adviser to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in 1986 for a duration of eight months.

[1][5][6][7][8] Chandra also served as Adviser (Export Industrialization and Policy) for the Commonwealth Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

[1][5][6][7][8] Post his superannuation from the service as the Cabinet Secretary of India,[5][6][7] Chandra was appointed a Senior Adviser in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO),[1][5][6][7] and hence was deemed to have been reemployed into the IAS.

[1][6][7][8] Chandra's long official association with the United States spans more than three decades, beginning with his first visit to this country in 1963–64.

He also chaired the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Task Force on Corporate Governance which submitted its report in November 2009 for voluntary adoption by listed companies and wholly owned subsidiaries of listed companies in India.

I remember going from one studio to another – TV, radio, and press – in addition to dozens of meetings in the Senate and the Congress.

We were able to have it up just in time to have it dedicated by the Prime Minister of India in the presence of the president of the United States on 16 September 2000.

[14] Chandra died at a hospital in Panaji, Goa, India, of multiple organ failure on 9 July 2017 at the age of 82.