# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/n-gopalaswami
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:02:43.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/n-gopalaswami"
name: "N. Gopalaswami"
slug: "n-gopalaswami"
description: "N. Gopalaswami, served as 15th Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) and has been awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2015. He is a 1966 batch Indian Administrative Services officer belonging to the Gujarat cadre. He took over the charge of CEC on 30 June 2006 and retired in April 2009. He is currently the president of Vivekananda Educational Society which runs a group of schools in and around Chennai. He was appointed as the Chairman of Kalakshetra for a term of five years starting from 22 October 2014, until 2019."
tagline: "Retired Indian civil servant and 15th Chief Election Commissioner of India"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1944-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump