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Current Position : |
Chairman, National Commission on Enterprises in the Unorganized and Informal Sector, Government of India |
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Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty, Commission on Human Rights, Geneva.
Member, High Level Task Force on the Right to Development, Commission on Human Rights, Geneva. |
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Adjunct Professor of Development and Human Rights, in the Faculty of Public Health, Harvard University, FXB Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. |
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Chairman, Centre for Development and Human Rights, Q-1/A, Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi – 110 016 |
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Chairman, Research and Information System (RIS), New Delhi, India |
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Chairman, South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS), Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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| Previous Positions : |
| (1999 -2004) |
Independent Expert on the Right to Development, Human Rights Commission, Geneva |
| (1993 – 1998) |
Member and Member Secretary (Minister of State) Planning Commission, Government of India. |
| (1990 – 1993) |
Ambassador of India to the European Union, Belgium and Luxemburg, Brussels. |
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Special Adviser to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. |
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Executive Director for India, Bangladesh and Bhutan, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. |
| (1981 – 1984) |
Special Secretary (Economic Adviser) to the Prime Minister of India. |
| (1977 – 1979) |
Economic Minister, Indian High Commission, London. |
| (1974 – 1977) |
Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. |
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| Academic and Research Positions: |
| (1998 – 2003) |
Research Professor (Hony), Centre for Policy Research, Dharm Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021 |
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Professor of International Economic Organization, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi – 110 067. |
| (1991 - 1993) |
Visiting Professor, The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague |
| (1979 – 1981) |
Visiting Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, and
Visiting Fellow, Christian Michelson Institute, Bergen, Norway |
| (1967 – 1969) |
Lecturer in Economics, London School of Economics, London |
| (1969 -1971) |
Reader in Economics, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi |
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(Also taught at Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and North Eastern University, Boston) |
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| Previous Membership of Committees: |
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Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Government of India, New Delhi. (1998 – 1999) |
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Committee for Development Planning, United Nations, New York (A Standing Apex Committee of the UN), 1995-98. |
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Secretariat of High Level Group of Development Strategy and Management of the Market Economy, DESIPA, UN, New York, 1996-98 |
| Chairman |
Working Group of the Deputies of the Group of 24 (G-24) Developing Countries, IMF, Washington D.C. on IMS, 1985-87. |
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Committee on the Role of the Public Enterprises, 1984. |
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Committee on Petroleum Products Pricing, Government of India, 1998. |
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| Publications: |
| International Financial Cooperation: Framework of Change (co-author with Frances Stewart) Frances Printer, Oxford, 1981. |
| A Review of the North-South negotiating process, Christian Michelsen Institute, Norway, 1980 |
| Commodities, Finance and Trade (edited) Frances Printer, Oxford, 1980 |
| Reforms, Equity and the IMF - An Economist's World, Har-Anand Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2001 |
| (Author of many Papers and Articles in academic journals and popular magazines) |
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| Publication (Forthcoming): |
IMF and the LDCs |
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