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.