Raju Narayana Swamy (born 24 May 1968) is an Indian Administrative Service officer, anticorruption crusader and whistleblower.
He is the all India first rank holder of the 1991 batch of the IAS and a Kerala Sahitya Academy Award winning writer.
His anti-corruption campaign began early in his career, attracting criticism from political bosses and accolades from the public leading to 31 transfers in 33 years.
Narayanaswamy refused permission to a real-estate developer to fill a large paddy farm, because it would have flooded about 50 poor village homes nearby with waste from an adjacent government hospital.
When Kerala chief minister V. S. Achuthanandan wanted encroachers in Munnar driven out, Narayanaswamy was one of his three handpicked men.
[4] Appointed chairman of the Coconut Development Board in August 2018, he unearthed corruption involving the CDB's Bangalore regional director and technical officer.
Narayanaswamy received the Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award from IIT Kanpur in 2018[6] for professional integrity in upholding human values, and was an international observer of the 2018 Zimbabwean general election.
He is also a recipient of the prestigious Homi Bhabha Fellowship - which brought him into the elite company of stalwarts like Thanu Padmanabhan.
[7] In December 2021, he received a Leonardo da Vinci Fellowship from George Mason University to research the prevention of corruption in intellectual property-rights offices with science and technology, including artificial intelligence and blockchain.