Democracy, Governance and Globalization

P.L. Sanjeev Reddy has been Director of the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi 1 April 2002.  After obtaining his B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. degrees in Economics from Andhra Univeristy, he joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1964 and was allotted the Andhra Pradesh cadre.  Subsequently, he did a Post Graduate Diploma in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, U.K. and Ph.D. in Industrial Management from Andhra Univeristy.  During a period spanning over thirty-five years in the civil service, he held various sensitive, responsible and challenging assignements in different areas.  Prior to superannuating in December 2000, he was Secretary, Department of Company Affairs, Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Government of India (GOI).  Earlier, he was Secretary, Department of Rural Development and Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, GOI, and, before that, Secretary, Department of Rural Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment, GOI (6 November 1997 to 5 May 1999).  From 8 February 1995 to 4 November 1997, he was Director General, Indian Insititute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.  From 3 September 1993 to 8 February 1995, he was Director General of foreign Trade and ex-officio Additional Secretary, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Commission.  Earliers, Dr. Reddy has worked as Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and also as Special Assistant to the President of India.  Dr. Reddy has been a recipient of several awards including, in 2002, the Golden Peacock Award of the Institute of Directors, London, for Excellence in Public Service.

Dr. R.K. Tiwari, Deputy Director at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad, obtained his Ph.D. degree in Geophysics in 1985, from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is presently leading a project on the time series analysis and modeling of palaeoenvironmental dynamics. He was the DAAD fellow at the University of Kiel, Germany, during 1985-87 and visiting scientist at the University of Bonn, Germany in 1999. he has published several works (over 50 papers) on periodicities, predictability and chaos on varied geophysical topics in national and international journals. Dr. Tiwari is recipient of Krishnan Gold Medal of Indian Geophysical Union (1987) for his significant contributions in geophysics. He is fellow of IGU and GSI.