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Dr. Gautam Pingle, currently the Dean of Research and Consultancy and Centre Director, Centre for Public Policy, Governance and Performance, ASCI, joined the College in 1979 as a Professor and was made Dean of Research & Consultancy, during 2005-07 after the two activities - Reserach and Consultancy - were merged.
Dr. Pingle has earned his Doctorate with his subject being "Some Methodological Aspects of the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Irrigation Projects", after which he began his career as a Research Associate at Glasgow University. He then moved to the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, where, as Project Officer in the Agriculture and Rural Development Division, he was involved with project evaluation in Belize and Sierra Leone, post-harvest losses in the Caribbean and Africa and Irrigation Management in South Asia.
Prior to joining ASCI, he had a decade-long stint in industry as Managing Director, Uniloids Limited.
Among several consulting assignments undertaken by Prof. Gautam Pingle, “The Food Corporation of India”, "Repositining India Posts", "Restructuring Central Water Commmission" are very prominent ones. He has designed and directed programmes for officers of the Indian Administrative Service entitled “Refining and Redefining the State” and “Governance in the New Millennium”. He has also designed and directed a programme for senior officials of the Indian Postal Service. He has presented papers in several forums and published papers in several national as well as international journals. As a consultant in his personal capacity, he has worked with the Government of Andhra Pradesh on its irrigation sector reform programme and with the Asian Development Bank, Manila.
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