Anup K Pujari

Anup K Pujari
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
anup@nic.in
Department

Dr. Anup K Pujari has been Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of MSME (Micro Small and Medium Enterprises) and in the Ministry of Mines, also briefly as Secretary, Ministry of Steel. In his long Civil Service career both with at Delhi with Government of India and at Bengaluru with the State Government of Karnataka; he has worked in the fields of Finance, Commerce & Industry, Education, and in Agriculture. He had led the Indian team in the negotiations of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) with various countries including with the US. He was also India’s Deputy with the World Bank (IBRD), the IMF, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank. As the DGFT (Director General of Foreign Trade) between 2010 & 2014, he was responsible for advising the Government on Trade Policy and implementing trade promotion measures.

He had taught Economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi; and subsequently at the Boston University, at UMASS and at Northeastern University between 1990 and 1992. Almost every summer since 1991 (except 2008-2015) he has been teaching Economics to the Mid-Career MPAs at the Summer Programme of JFK School of Government, Harvard University (now known as HKS: Harvard Kennedy School). He has also taught at Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID) in their Budget programs held at Cambridge, MA, USA; Nairobi, Kenya; and Amman, Jordan. He has been a visiting faculty at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru; Indian School of Development Management Delhi; and LBSNAA Mussoorie.

He has master's degrees from Delhi School of Economics (in Economics) and from Boston University (in Political Economy) and a PhD in Economics (Doctoral thesis was on Intellectual Property Rights) from Boston University. Later he completed his LLB from Delhi University and a 1-year programme in Security & Strategic Studies from National Defence College (NDC), New Delhi.