Hon. Nand Kishore SINGH

Mr. N.K. 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. N.K. 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.

He 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 served also 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, macro policy including foreign direct investment, energy, transport, tax and infrastructure policy.  Mr. Singh has a wide range of national and international experience having interacted closely with multilateral organizations like World Bank, IMF, ADB, UNCTAD, GATT, WTO, UNDP and OECD

Mr. N.K. Singh has a Master’s Degree in Economics and was teaching Economics at the prestigious St. Stephen’s College, Delhi prior to joining the Civil Service. Mr. Singh has lectured widely at eminent universities and is currently also Short Term Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Stanford.