Biography[edit]

Ananda Krishnan was born in 1938 in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur to Tamil parents, who were of Sri
Lankan origin. He studied at Vivekananda Tamil School in Brickfields and furthered his studies
at Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur. Later, as a Colombo Plan scholar, he attended the University of
Melbourne, Australia for his B.A. (Honours) degree majoring in political science. During that time he
boarded in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn. Following that, Krishnan obtained a Masters in
Business Administration from Harvard Business School, graduating in 1964.[9]

Krishnan is a follower of Buddhism.

Krishnan has two daughters and a son who is also a Theravada Buddhist monk known as Ajahn
Siripanyo