Bhubaneswar: National Knowledge Commission chairperson Sam Pitroda will deliver a lecture at Orissa's prestigious Ravenshaw University on January 16, the university said on Monday.

He will deliver the third lecture of a series in an open-air stage inside the university campus at Cuttack, about 25 km from here.

British economist and Labour politician Lord Meghnad Desai delivered the first lecture in 2008, followed by former Indian Army chief General Shankar Roychowdhury in 2009. IANS