NK Singh
Chairman of Management Development Institute, India

Mr NK Singh is a Member of the Planning Commission (in the rank of a Minister of State of Government of India) the highest Government body responsible for allocation of resources to all organs of the Central Government and to State Governments in the federal set- up. Mr NK Singh is also Chairman of the Steering Group on Foreign Direct Investment and of the Steering Group on energy and Transport policy and National Taskforce on Power Sector Reforms, Hydrogen Energy and future of the Entertainment sector.

Mr NK Singh has been actively involved in the initiation and implementation of India's economic reform strategy from 1991. He was Additional Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and was actively engaged as leader of the delegation to World Bank, IMF, Asian Development Bank and other multi- lateral institutions. Subsequently he served as Expenditure Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and later as Revenue Secretary in- charge of India's tax policies. As a former Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, he was the main advisor on all economic issues, including foreign direct investment, energy, transport, and tax and infrastructure policy. He carries with him a rich cross- sectoral experience in areas as diverse as internal security, trade policy and multilateral trade negotiations, energy sector investment and telecommunications.

Mr Singh has a wide range of national and international experience having interacted closely with multilateral organizations like UNCTAD, GATT, WTO, UNDP and OECD. He was the first Chairman of the Global