Shri Anup Wadhawan IAS (Uttarakhand 1985), Director General, Foreign Trade has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce; vice:Ajay Kumar Bhalla IAS (Assam 1984).
Shri Wadhawan appointments have ranged from magisterial and development administration positions in the field to policy-related assignments in areas like education, planning, hill development, rural development, urban development and forests & environment in the States of UP and Uttarakhand. He was District Magistrate in Etawah and Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission.He has served in the Government of India in the Departments of Economic Affairs, Financial Services and Commerce, and the Prime Minister’s Office.
He was a member of an African Development Bank team that evaluated its lending to the public utilities sector in Ghana and Tanzania. He has worked for the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank providing technical assistance for enhancing accountability in Water Supply & Sanitation service-delivery through policy, institutional and utility reform.
He holds a doctorate from Duke University, a Masters degree from the Delhi School of Economics and a Bachelors degree from Hindu College, University of Delhi, in the area of Economics.
IndianBureaucracy.com wishes Shri Anup Wadhawan the very best.