Rahul Khullar (5 April 1953 – 23 February 2021) was an IAS officer of the 1975 batch and a former chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
[1] Khullar was in the 1969 undergraduate batch in Economics at the St. Stephen's College, Delhi where he was a contemporary of economist Kaushik Basu and NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar.
[2] He was the Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade prior to his selection as Chairman of TRAI by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
[3][4][5][6][7][8] In recent years, he had been teaching Economics and Mathematics at Vasant Valley School in New Delhi, India.
[citation needed] He was married to IAS batchmate and former Chairperson of Niti Aayog Sindhushree Khullar and they have two daughters.