• Chairman of the governing board of India’s ₹3,660 crore National Mission on Cyber-Physical System Technologies
• Board of Governors of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
• Chairman of The Council, IISc Bangalore
• Chairman, Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore
• Member of DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance’s Strategic Advisory Council
• Nanyang Professor of the Practice at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 1 June 2018
• Trustee of the Infosys Science Foundation
Positions in industry / government institutions and bodies
• Chairman of Vision Group on IT for Government of Karnataka
• President of the Confederation of Indian Industries (2013–14)
• Co-chair of the World Economic Forum in Davos (2014)
• Member of the United Nations Global Compact Board (2012–15)
• Chairperson of India’s committee on Non-Personal Data Governance
• First Chairperson of the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub
• Chairman of CII Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups and former chairman of CII Start-up Council
• Recognised as Global Business Thinker (2009)
• Padma Bhushan awarded by the Government of India (2011)
• Voted the top CEO (IT Services category) in Institutional Investor’s inaugural ranking of Asia’s Top Executives (2011)
• Asian Corporate Director Recognition Award by Corporate Governance Asia (2011)
• Conferred with an honorary doctorate by the University of Kerala (2019)
• University College, Thiruvananthapuram
• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• Master of Science (MSc) in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1975-1977)
• Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1977-1979)
In January 2025, Kris Gopalakrishnan, along with 17 others, members of the faculty and administration of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, was booked for caste discrimination after a complaint was filed by D Sanna Durgappa.
Daughter– Meghana Gopalkrishnan
Mother– (Homemaker)
• Owns a lavish house in Koramangala, Bengaluru
• Owns two properties in JP Nagar, valued at Rs. 113 crores
• He has invested in a variety of asset classes, including equity, debt, private and public markets, mutual funds, and startups