Pankaj Agrawala
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Mr. Pankaj has been the joint secretary of GoI, Department of IT, Ministry of Communication and IT. He manages e-infrastructure in the Department of IT and in that capacity represents India in the GAC of ICANN. He is a vice chairman of GAC.
He is on the Board of Telecom Infrastructure Manufacturing Company, IIT and NIXI.
Career History
Mr. Agrawala has held various important U.P government positions. He has worked on various field organizations in districts and divisions of Uttar Pradesh. He has worked in the rural development for more than 12 years.
He assumed the position of the director of Ministry of Urban Development in 1991 and then he became the Director of Housing Division, Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment July 1994. He was a member of the Indian delegation to the Habitat II City Summit, Istanbul. After which, he did work in the Administrative Training Institute in Nainital in the Decentralised Training for Urban Development Project.
He was the secretary to the U.P. Government from 1998-2002. He has held positions in various departments including the Department of Planning; the Department of Banking and Private Capital Investments; the Department of Externally Aided Projects, there he managed five World Bank projects; the department of IT and Electronics and the department of Small Scale Industries and Export Promotion.[1]
Education
He is from the 1978 batch of IAS (Uttar Pradesh cadre). Mr. Agrawala has a Masters in Public Administration, Development Economics and History. He was a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. He completed his education from Harvard in 1994.