Gopal Krishna Pillai or G. K. Pillai (born 30 Nov 1949) is an Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S) officer and the former Home Secretary in the Government of India. He was born into a Nair family in Kerala. He was educated at Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore, and at the St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. He then obtained an M.Sc from IIT Madras. He belongs to the Kerala cadre of the 1972 batch of I.A.S.

Career

G.K. Pillai held diverse positions in the state government of Kerala such as:

Media spotlight

In February 2016, Pillai claimed to media that there was political interference in the controversial Ishrat Jahan case. Pillai's claims were corroborated by another former official in March 2016, bringing the Ishrat Jahan case into media spotlight once again.