Anil Swarup is a former 1981 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer and was awarded Director’s gold medal for “best officer trainee” at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA). He served the Government of India in various capacities for 38 years and went on to become Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy and the Coal Secretary of India. He is the author of several books like ‘No More a Civil Servant,’ ‘Ethical dilemmas of a civil servant’ and ‘Not just a civil servant’.