Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha

He has been awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree, Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka in 2012 and by D Y Patil International University, Maharashtra in 2014.

Mantha, who was the vice chairman at All India Council for Technical Education, was given the additional charge of chairman in 2009, when the then chairman RA Yadav was suspended by the Union HRD ministry due to corruption charges. Mantha was later appointed as the chairman of AICTE in 2012, where he spent six years conceiving and implementing e-governance reforms to allow for a transparent administration and created the regulations for the Blended Learning Paradigm and the regulations for Twinning Programs in Engineering and Technology.

Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha, commonly known as S. S. Mantha, is an Indian academician and administrator based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, currently serving as the CEO of MahaPreit StartUp Knowledge Centre (MSKC), Mumbai and Adjunct professor of National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He is also the former Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body and a national level council for technical education under the Department of Higher Education established in 1945, and has served as president of the National Board of Accreditation and deputy vice-chancellor of the SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. He also served as the chancellor of KL University. He heads the National Technical Committee, National Cyber Safety, and Security Standards (NSSSC).