General Insurance Corporation of India has appointed Dr. M. P. Tangirala Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services as Government Nominee Director of the Corporation with effect from 5th January 2023 and until further orders vice Shri Amit Agrawal erstwhile Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services. Maruthi Prasad Tangirala is a 1990 batch officer of the Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service. He joined service after obtaining a BE in civil engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, and a PGDM from IIM Calcutta.

He also holds an LLB (Osmania University, Hyderabad) and an MPhil (Panjab University, Chandigarh). His PhD is from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU, New Delhi. He has published articles in scholarly journals, and is the author of Telecom Sector Regulation in India: An Institutional Perspective, published by Routledge in 2019.

He has earlier worked in the Department of Telecommunications, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, and Union Public Service Commission.