Dr. Pyla Narayana Rao is an Associate Professor with School of Corporate Law & School of Competition Law & Market Regulations (I/C) at IICA. He is also a Nodal officer from IICA to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI). Dr. Rao is one the key persons for bringing the Post Graduate Insolvency Programmes (formerly known as GIP) at IICA and acted as Course Coordinator, GIP and Nodal Faculty of Centre for Insolvency and Bankruptcy at IICA. He acted as course coordinator of the prestigious National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Colloquiums for Hon’ble Members of NCLT organized at IICA as an Induction and Refresher Programs. He was the course director for training programs organized for Officers of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) from 2015 to 2022. He is also course coordinator and director at IICA for one of the flagship and prestigious two years LL.M residential program on IBC by NALSAR and IICA. He organized many programs in online and offline mode on Corporate Law, Competition Law and Business and Financial Laws including the IBC. He conducted and addressed customized programs for Officers of Power Grid Corporation, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), EY, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Telecom, and Department of Audit and Accounts on various issues related to Companies Act, SEBI, Competition Law and IBC. He also addressed the Officers of Indian Corporate Law Service (ICLS) from 2015 to 2018 on Corporate and Allied Laws.


Dr. Rao completed his LL.M. and Ph.D. from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Prior to Joining IICA, Dr. Rao has assisted the M.K. Nambyar SAARC Law Centre at NALSAR University of Law as a Research Associate from 2009 to 2013. He was the co-editor of the M.K. Nambyar SAARC Law Centre newsletter and assisted the Centre in conducting International Conferences, National Workshops and Monthly Seminars. He has taught Comparative Corporate and Competition Laws and International Commercial and Business Laws to Post Graduate students at NALSAR. He also worked as an Assistant Professor at School of Law, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam from 2013 to 2014. His areas of expertise and interest are Corporate Law, International Trade Law, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws and Competition Laws.
E-mail: pyla.rao@iica.in