Prof Siva Raju is the Professor for the Centre for Excellence in CSR at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and was the Deputy Director of the TISS Hyderabad Campus. He holds postgraduate degrees in Population Studies and statistics and a PhD in Regional Development and Health and Family Welfare.

His broad fields of interest are Corporate Social Responsibility, Resettlement and Rehabilitiation, Population and Development, Research Methodology, ageing, health and development.

His major publications include: Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility: Indian Perspectives, Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence, The Parsi Elderly, Regional Development & Family Planning, Gerontological Social Work in India, Health Status of the Urban Elderly, Adolescents Reproductive Health Perspectives, Voice of the Elderly in India, Primary Health Centers in Rural Health, Social Mapping and Networking of Organizations Working for Care of Older Persons, Social Inclusion and Women Health, and Ageing, Health and Development. He holds to his credit a Status Report on older poor in India, which was launched at the Second World Assembly on Ageing by the United Nations.