About DR. VIVEK K AGNIHOTRI, IAS (RETD.)

Dr. Vivek K. Agnihotri is a retired IAS officer of the 1968 batch of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh cadre. He did Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis and Design from IIT Delhi. He was a Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. He superannuated as Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (2003-05). After retirement, he was a Member of CAT (2006-07), and Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha (2007-12) in the Parliament of India. He has been conferred the Paul H. Appleby Award 2018 by the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. He is currently Director-General, Golden Peacock Award Secretariat, Institute of Directors, New Delhi, and a member of the Court of the University of Pondicherry. He has written and edited several books including, An Argosy of English Prose; Indian History and Culture; Skills for Effective Administrators; Faculty Manual of LBSNAA; Public Policy Analysis and Design; Socio-Economic Profile of Rural India (South India); Effective and Responsive Administration; Quality Management in Government: Theory and Practice; Handbook on the Working of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; Praxis of Indian Parliament: Notes on Procedures of the Council of States and its Secretariat (in two volumes); Total Quality Management for Boardroom; and Daring Bureaucracy: Revelations and Ruminations. He has also published several articles in national and international journals and periodicals.