Full-time Member of the Sixteenth Finance Commission & Former Finance Secretary and member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission of India

• Shri Ajay Narayan Jha is a 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Manipur cadre. He was the Finance Secretary of India for three months. He was appointed as the member of Fifteenth Finance Commission of India.
• Shri Ajay Narayan Jha has served in various key positions for both the Government of India and the Government of Manipur, like as Principal Secretary (Finance), Principal Secretary (Environment and Forests), chairman of Manipur Renewable Energy Development Agency (MREDA), principal secretary to the Chief Minister of Manipur, secretary to the Governor of Manipur, and as the deputy commissioner and district magistrate of Ukhrul and Churachandpur districts in the Manipur government, and as Union Expenditure Secretary, Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary, special secretary in Department of Expenditure of the Ministry of Finance, joint secretary and financial adviser in Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Human Resources Development, and as joint secretary and financial adviser in Ministry of Law and Justice.
• Shri Ajay Narayan Jha also served as consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).[3] In addition, Jha served as the secretary of Fourteenth Finance Commission, a deputy election commissioner in the Election Commission of India,[3] and as Joint Secretary (Administration) in the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, on deputation.