Harsha Vardhana Singh
Deputy Director-General at the WTO
Dr. Singh's direct responsibilities as DDG, WTO include areas of Agriculture, Services, Trade and Environment, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, and Technical Barriers to Trade. He has worked for 18 years in the GATT/WTO, first from June 1985 to June 1997, and more recently since October 2005. He has worked in the GATT/WTO Secretariat in areas of Economic Research, Trade Policy Review, Rules, Trade and Environment, and the Office of the Director-General, and for past six years as Deputy Director General. From mid-June 1997 to September 2005, he was with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), initially as Economic Advisor and then as Secretary, TRAI. He has been member of High Level Policy Committees dealing with international trade and regulation, served as Chair of WTO dispute settlement Panels, and been visiting faculty or Honorary/Adjunct Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, The Energy and Resources Institute (Delhi), and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. After his Masters in Economics from Delhi University, Dr. Singh went to the University of Oxford (UK) as a Rhodes Scholar from India to obtain his M.Phil. and D.Phil. in Economics.