Speaker
Praveen Singh Pardeshi
IAS (1985:MH)
Member Administration, Capacity Building Commission, Government of India
Former Municipal Commissioner, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Praveen Singh Pardeshi is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer with over 29 years of experience in the services. Presently, he is the Member Administration at the Capacity Building Commission, Government of India, which is the government’s major reform initiative to drive standardization and harmonization across the Indian civil services landscape.
He is former Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai. He managed the entire public health structure of Mumbai and led the task force for COVID19 containment as the Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai. He has also served as the Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. In addition to his administrative roles, he has held several senior leadership positions in the United Nations. He was the Global Head of UNDP Geneva and Senior Coordinator of United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). Most recently, he worked for the Defeat-NCD Partnership under UNITAR as the Global Programme Coordinator.
Mr. Pardeshi holds an MSc degree in Social Policy, Participatory Planning and Economic Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prior to getting a Masters Degree in Development Economics from DSE, he was an Economics graduate from DU.
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