Dr. Sathyanarayana holds a Doctorate in the area of Infrastructure Laws from the prestigious National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He is also a post graduate in Business Laws (NLSIU) and English (Mysore University). He has extensive experience in the Urban sector, specially water and sanitation projects, sanitary landfills, commercial properties etc.  He has contributed to Policy and Regulatory matters in the transportation sector. Particularly, the road sector in Karnataka and has overseen bid process management for several highway projects, airports, ports and rail infrastructure across India. Among Sathya’s major achievements are: A Master Trainer in the National PPP Capacity Building Program; Key Resource Person at the Administrative Training Institute at Mysore, to train officers in the Government of Karnataka; At the IDFC Foundation, he has trained officers of Government of Nigeria & the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission at Lagos; Before joining iDeCK in the year 2000, he was working in the Finance Department’s Project Monitoring Unit, of the Government of Karnataka for nearly two years dealing with monitoring of External Aided Projects. Prior to that, he was working in various capacities in the Central Government for nearly 18 years.