Mr. G Narayanan has taken over the charge as the CMD of NSIL on 31 Jan 2020. He was earlier serving as Deputy Director (Systems Reliability and Quality Assurance) at the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), a leading ISRO facility at Valiamala, Thiruvananthapuram. His previous assignments include a stint as First Secretary (Space) at the Indian Embassy in Paris. Mr. Narayanan is an alumnus of the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, where he did his B.Tech and M.Tech. He joined ISRO in 1983.