Dr. Prof. Nagendra Parashar is currently serving as the Provost at Indrashil University. His educational qualifications include BE in Industrial and Production Engineering at Mysore University, M.Tech, and Ph.D. from National Institute of Engineering. He possesses more than 25 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience.

Dr. Parashar worked as the Vice Chancellor at Presidency University before joining Indrashil University. He has held several administrative positions such as Assistant Dean Practice School Division at BITS Pilani, Incharge (Dean) Practice School & Placement at BITS, Pilani, Dubai, Editor-in-Chief of journal published by BITS, Pilani; Dean Academics at KL University, Dean University-Industry Linkage Programs at KL University, Dean Planning & Development at KL University and Pro Vice-Chancellor at KL University, Director (Education) / Provost at GMR Group at Vice President level.

Dr. Parashar has been instrumental in introducing internship program and placement at BITS, Pilani Dubai campus. He ensured 100% placement and initiated university-industry collaboration with more than 150 companies during his tenure at BITS, Pilani Dubai. He was the Editor in chief of the journal published by BITS, Pilani. He has also written two textbooks and has published several papers to his credit.

Dr. Parsashar has also been involved in introducing the flexible academic system, university-industry linkage programs, centralized timetable, centralized academic registration at KL University. He has played a big role in taking several educational institutions at GMR Group in specific GMR Institute of Technology to different heights. Apart from this, he has delivered several lecturers on teaching-learning process, internship programs at various colleges and universities.