Natarajan Bala Baskar is a Senior Consultant with Auroville Consulting. He was the Secretary of the Auroville Foundation from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2012 to 2014. He worked in various capacities for the government of Haryana and government of India as a member of the Indian Administrative Service. After retirement he served as the Director of the Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy for two years.