Dr Prajapati Trivedi

Senior Director at the Commonwealth Secretariat

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Dr Prajapati Trivedi is currently the Senior Director at the Commonwealth Secretariat looking after the Economic, Youth and Sustainable Development Directorate in London, UK. In addition, he is a Visiting Fellow at the IBM Centre for the business of Government, Washington, DC, and visiting Economics Faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Until January 2018, he was the Senior Fellow (Governance) and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Faculty Chair for the Management Programme in Public Policy (MPPP) at the Indian School of Business. He also headed the National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention as its chairman. Dr Trivedi worked for fourteen years (1994-2009) as a Senior Economist for the World Bank in Washington DC, before joining the Government of India in 2009. He was previously Economic Adviser to Government of India from 1992 to 1994.

In 2017 he became the first Indian to receive the International Public Administration Award given by the American Society for Public Administration for contributing significantly to the field of public administration as a scholar and practitioner.

He is also the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), Washington, DC.

On March 11, 2019, Prof. Trivedi was awarded the Harry Hatry Distinguished Performance Management Practice Award for 2019 in Washington, DC.

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