Timeline

Historical Transect: a journey from a sleepy town to the U.N.

  • 2012 –

    Aug

    Development Tracks, RTC

    New Delhi, India

    Executive Director

    Responsibilities include total operational control of the company.

  • 2000 – 2012

    Jun – July

    United Nations

    Bangkok, Thailand

    Senior Expert Macro-economic policy and development division and Nodal officer for food security in UNESCAP

    Responsibilities included managing a multi-million, multi-year development intervention in the Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) and providing technical inputs on food security issues to HPDD

  • 2008 – 2009

    Jun – July

    United Nations

    Beijing, CHINA

    Head of Asia Pacific Centre for Agricultural Engineering and Machinery, Beijing

    Responsibilities included total operational control of the centre, undertake cutting edge level research on food security, plan and execute capacity building exercises on agricultural development

  • 2004 – 2007

    Jun – Dec

    United Nations

    Bangkok, Thailand

    Regional Advisor on Poverty Reduction

    Responsibilities included advising government on poverty reduction, monitoring and evaluation of development programs for member States of United Nations ESCAP, developing
    system for social accounting, social auditing and social accountability in
    developing countries of Asia and the
    Pacific, policy advocacy on behalf of United Nations ESCAP. (Regional
    Advisors were called Ambassadors of United Nations ESCAP)     as appropriate.

    Held
    additional responsibility of setting up Public-Private-Community Partnership
    Project in Tsunami Affected Areas of India

  • 2003 – 2004

    Jun – Jun

    United Nations

    Bangkok, Thailand

    Chief Technical Advisor, Pro-poor Public Private Partnerships, Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific, Bangkok

    Responsibilities included:
    Facilitating the establishment of and total co-ordination as also technical backstopping of a multi-sector (Bio-diversity, energy, health and water) multi-country project (in pro-poor Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand) and multi-million dollar public-private partnership project

  • 1999 – 2003

    Jun – Jan

    Development Tracks RTC

    Private Sector company, New Delhi, India

    Executive Director Development
    Tracks in Research Training and Consultancy

    Responsibilities included:
    Total operational management and direction of the company in India involving capacity building, research and evaluation of holistic projects in social development and sectoral projects on basic health, primary education, community based
    rehabilitation of people with disabilities, food security, off-farm income generation, and poverty alleviation. Clients included ADB, the World bank,
    UNDP, Care-India, Government of India and State Governments

  • 1995 – 1999

    Jun – Jun

    Action Aid

    International Development Organisation, India

    Country Director

    Responsibilities included total management and direction of ACTIONAID India’s programme in India involving:

    1. One Central Office, three Zonal Offices, seven Regional Offices and over 375 project partners spread all over the country
    2. Eigthy-Six Long Term Development Partnerships – Integrated social development Projects, and Community Based Rehabilitation Projects for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities – spread in over 19 States in India .
    3. Over 175 short term development partnerships – projects, spread all over India, in basic health, primary education, community based rehabilitation of people
      with disabilities, food security, off-farm income generation, research and advocacy for poverty alleviation and capacity building.

    4. Servicing donor communities in UK, Spain, Italy and Greece, involving over 45000 individual supporters
    5. Changed the focus of the organization from empowerment of the poor to Rights based Approach to development and initiated the Right To Food Campaign as an entry point for demonstrating that a paradigm based on right to development works

  • 1997 – 1999

    Aug – May

    Action Aid

    India & China Additional Charge

    In-Charge of China Programme (concurrent charge)

    Responsibilities included:

    1. Evaluation of the country situation as being suitable for non-state development intervention
    2. Survey the secondary data and determine the areas to work
    3. Selectiing location of interventions and development area(s)
    4. Negotiate with the National Government the agreement to establish Representative Office and commence work
    5. Negotiate with sub-national Governments (provincial, county and district) relating to conditions under which Action Aid would work
    6. Negotiate with Governments at different levels to secure Governmental share of the Programme Costs
    7. Select partner Ministries, Organizations and Institutions in the new countries and also select personnel and building their capacity
    8. Develop the programme, including setting up systems of appraisal, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation
    9. The interventions in China involved capacity building and advocacy for participatory planning for village development by actual preparation of village plans using PRA and demonstrating their implementability to the people and different tiers og Government and Institutions involved in development

  • 1991 – 1994

    Mar – Jan

    National Academy of Administration, Govt. of India

    Mussoorie, India

    Professor Planning / Economics and Faculty Co-ordinator,
    Centre for Micro-Planning and Regional Studies

    Responsibilities included:

    1. Teaching Officers of the higher echelons of Indian Civil Services and conducting research, in economics, development economics, Panchayati Raj Institutions (local level self governance), micro-planning for social development and poverty alleviation. This involved running case studies, leading syndicates, guiding term papers, facilitating field studies and handling counselor groups
    2. Leading project teams and managing large projects in
      development, training of Officers in Indian Civil Services
    3. Designing, implementing and monitoring of social
      development and employment generation programmes
    4. Developing materials in publishable form for training in Multi-Level Planning
    5. Conducting Training of Trainers on behalf of the Government and other institutions
    6. Editing of quarterly Journal The Administrator (New-Delhi: Wiley Eastern)

  • 1989 – 1991

    Jun – Feb

    National
    Academy of Administration

    Mussoorie, India

    Advisor Decentralization Planning Unit

    Responsibilities included:

    1. Leading the project team in drawing up Micro-level Plans and advising State Governments on different aspects of social developments. Training the officers of top Civil Services of India on income and non-income poverty eradication, development economics and micro-level planning for social development
    2. Action research on developmental issues and advising State Governments and preparing perspective plans
      for development, poverty alleviation, etc.

    3. Help in developing manuals for training in micro-level planning
    4. Conduct international/national level seminars, conferences and workshops for capacity
      building and seeking policy changes

  • 1986 – 1989

    Jun – Jun

    United Bank of India, Kolkata (wholly owned by the Government of India)

    Kolkata, India

    Executive
    Secretary     to the Chairman, Managing Director and the Board of Directors

    Responsibilities included:

    1. Monitoring the activities of nearly 1250 Offices and Branches of the Bank throughout the country, with regard to rural credit planning, rural credit servicing for poverty alleviation programmes and rural credit disbursement
    2. Monitoring on behalf of the Chairman and Managing Director, invocation of credit guarantees, business expansion and general administration
    3. Handing down the decisions of the Board of Directors down the line and monitoring their execution and providing feedback to the Board for further direction
    4. Assisting the Chairman and Managing Director in the
      discharge of his function, in such areas as policy making and countrywide operations

  • 1976 – 1986

    Sep – Jun

    United Bank of India, Kolkata (wholly owned by the Government of India)

    Kolkata, India

    Development Banker in different capacities including Chief Officer and Chief Manager

    Responsibilities included:

    1. Credit sanctioning and disbursement
    2. Credit proposal evaluation
    3. Managing foreign exchange operation and total operational control of an exceptionally large branch of a major nationalized bank of India
    4. Career path planning, training of the personnel including developing the annual training plan of the bank
    5. Matters relating to policy making with regard to promotion and service conditions of officers