Prajapati Trivedi

Dr. Prajapati Trivedi, is currently Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for SDG Implementation. Till recently he was a Senior Director heading the Economic, Youth, and Sustainable Development Directorate of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK. From 2009-2014, he served as a Permanent Secretary to the Government of India in the Cabinet Secretariat, Prime Minister’s Office, where he was responsible for designing a highly regarded whole-of-government performance monitoring and evaluation system for government departments and reporting the results to the Prime Minister of India. He served concurrently as the Chairman, National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention (NACWC). He also served as Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 1992-94; Senior Economist with the World Bank from 1995-2009; STC Chair Professor of Public Sector Management at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (1987-1992). He received B.A. (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, M.Sc. (Economics) from London School of Economics in 1972 and Ph. D. (Economics) from Boston University in 1985. Author of five books and several academic papers, he has worked in more than 50 countries around the world. In 2017 he became the first Indian to receive the International Public Administration Award by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of public administration as a scholar and practitioner. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), Washington, DC. Prof. Trivedi started his teaching career in Economics from St. Stephen’s College 1974 and went on to be the youngest Chaired Tenured Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). He continues to teach an Economics course at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.