Dr. Maruthi Prasad Tangirala is a 1990 batch officer of the Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service. He is an alumnus of College of Engineering, Guindy, IIM Calcutta, Osmania University, IIPA, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he obtained his PhD in law and governance. His thesis was on the institutional aspects of regulatory governance in the Indian telecom services sector, published as a monograph by Routlegde.

In his career in government, he has worked in different functional areas of telecom policy, law, and regulation, administration, personnel management and training, insurance regulation, and financial services. Apart from his parent department of telecommunications, Dr. Tangirala has worked in various capacities in BSNL, TRAI, UPSC, and IRDAI. He is at present Additional Secretary in the Department of Financial Services, Government of India.