A chronology, dated only where the record is dated
Life Insurance Corporation of India publishes the sequence of Ramakrishnan Chander’s postings but not the year of each one. Entries below carry a year only where the Corporation or contemporaneous reporting has given one. The rest are shown in order, marked as undated. No date on this page has been estimated or inferred.
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1990Life Insurance Corporation of India
Joins the Corporation as an Assistant Administrative Officer
Entry through LIC’s direct-recruit officer cadre — the grade through which the Corporation takes in graduates and trains them into its administrative leadership. India’s life insurance market is still closed to private insurers; LIC is the only life office in the country.
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Date not publishedNagpur Division
Senior Divisional Manager
General command of a division: staff, distribution, policy servicing, claims and results. The first office in an LIC career answerable for an entire book of business rather than a single function.
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Date not publishedHyderabad Division
Senior Divisional Manager
A second divisional command, in one of the Corporation’s major southern centres. Two divisions in succession is a conventional and demanding step in LIC’s progression to zonal office.
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Date not publishedSouth Zone
Regional Manager (Marketing)
Regional responsibility for LIC’s distribution — the recruitment, training, activation and productivity of the largest tied agency force in Indian financial services, together with the Corporation’s alternate channels.
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Date not publishedSouth Central Zone
Regional Manager (Pension & Group Schemes)
A move from retail to institutional business: group term cover, gratuity and superannuation fund management, group savings-linked schemes and annuities, sold to employers and trusts rather than to households.
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Plate Official portrait supplied for this record. The source file carries no date or location, and none is given here. IntervalBetween the zonal offices and Central Office, the record turns outward — first to LIC’s business beyond India, then to the floor on which the Corporation invests.
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Date not publishedStrategic Business Unit — International Operations
Executive Director
Leads the central office unit that owns LIC’s overseas branches, subsidiaries and joint ventures — a portfolio in which every entity answers to a different regulator, solvency regime, tax code and currency.
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Date not publishedCentral Office, Mumbai
Executive Director (Investment – Front Office)
Heads the front office of LIC’s investment department: the deployment of policyholder funds across government securities, corporate debt and equities within regulatory and internal limits.
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2025JuneKey Managerial Person
Takes charge as Chief Investment Officer
Assumes charge of one of India’s largest investment portfolios. LIC is the country’s largest institutional investor, and decisions taken on its investment floor carry beyond the Corporation into the government bond and equity markets.
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20251 DecemberBy Government of India notification dated 1 December 2025
Elevated to Managing Director, LIC of India
Announced by the Corporation in a press release dated at Mumbai on 2 December 2025. The Corporation framed the appointment as continuing its “tradition of strong leadership spanning seven decades”.
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202730 SeptemberTerm of office
Date of superannuation
His appointment runs until superannuation on 30 September 2027, or until further orders, whichever is earlier — the same end date that had been set for his tenure as Chief Investment Officer.
A note on the fourth entry above: LIC states that he served as Senior Divisional Manager and as Regional Manager for Marketing and for Pension & Group Schemes. The divisions named — Nagpur and Hyderabad — and the zones named — South Zone and South Central Zone — are as reported at the time of his appointment as Chief Investment Officer in June 2025.