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English: Narayan Ramdas Iyer (born: 1964) is the Director of National Science Centre (National Council of Science Museums or NCSM, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India), New Delhi and one of ten stakeholders of Creative Museum Designers (CMD), Kolkata, a wholly owned by the NCSM.

He is a science communicator with an experience of over thirty-three years. During these years, he has served with the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) in Kolkata, Raman Science Centre in Nagpur and National Science Centre in New Delhi. His special area of skill is exhibition and Gallery development, educational outreach activities, museum management, public relations, fund generation, and creating public understanding of science. He has curated over 20 galleries in the past 25 years and over 12 travelling exhibitions. These are on topics ranging from Indian Heritage in Science and Technology, Biomedical technologies, Water, Human Biology etc. He has also set up a full-fledged science centre in Jodhpur, Almora, Shimla etc., He has been conducting several educational popular activities. He set up of a unique open lab called the Raman Innovation Centre at Nagpur to foster innovation among people in Central India, for which he has formed a consortium of stakeholders from the Vidarbha Industries Association, Vigyan Bharati and all the College Principals of the Vidarbha Region to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. He conceptualised and created a highly acclaimed Gallery on Water at the Raman Science Centre Nagpur. He is keenly interested in collecting artefacts for the Museum he works in, and has collected an Aircraft and a Helicopter engine for Raman Science Centre. Iyer has curated international exhibitions on at least eight topics, including Cricketing ties between India and Australia (displayed at Sydney Cricket Ground) and India and England (displayed at the Lords in June 2017).

N. Ramdas Iyer was born in Moovattupuzha in Kerala on 1964, brought up in Gujarat, North Interior Karnataka, studied in Kerala, worked in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Delhi and Maharashtra. He did his post-graduation in Applied Electronics from the Gulbarga University in Karnataka and stood first in the University in his M.Sc. Thereafter he worked in the Cement Industry in Karnataka as an Instrumentation Engineer and in a college in Tamil Nadu before joining the NCSM in 1991. He has a post graduate degree in Psychology.

He writes a lot of articles on popular science topics, and scientific articles in journals and has published a book on a comparative study between India and China in the field of public understanding of science. He delivers popular talks to students often.

He has curated and set up exhibitions in many Countries abroad like Bhutan, Finland, Poland, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mauritius and Sri Lanka all of which were greatly appreciated. He is now working on his second joint exhibition with the United Kingdom and World's highest altitude museum at Kedarnath, India.