Naren Shankar is an Indian American writer, producer and director of several television series. He is currently co-showrunner of the Amazon Prime sci-fi space opera series The Expanse. He served as co-showrunner on the long-running CBS crime drama CSI and Almost Human, among others. As a writer and producer, Shankar has contributed with works for Farscape, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, The Chronicle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, seaQuest 2032, Grimm and Star Trek: Voyager.