Shri B.S Baswan
IAS (Retd.) Chair
Shri Baswan joined Indian Administrative Service in 1967 as an Officer of the Madhya Pradesh Cadre. He was educated at the Doon School, Dehradun; St. Stephen's College, Delhi; Elphinstone College, Bombay; Victoria University, Manchester (UK); and Banff School of Advanced Management, Canada.
During his career, he has held many important positions such as, Director, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Secretary, Department of Secondary and Higher Education, MHRD, Govt. of India as well as the Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
He has served as Commissioner, Higher Education, Government of M.P., Director, Institute of Secretariat Training and Management, Government of India; Joint Secretary(Training), Ministry of Personnel, Government of India, DFID/World Bank Consultant for Forest Policy – 1999; Secretary, National Commission for Minorities, Government of India; Chairman, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (Ministry of Chemicals and Petrochemicals), Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India. Post retirement, he also served as Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, Senior Consultant, Planning Commission, Government of India.
After retirement, Shri Baswan has been in the Results Framework Document team for the Cabinet Secretariat, Member/Chair of some official committees, Chairman, Lawrence School Lovedale and the Delhi Public Library, a Member of the Board of Governors/ Management Committees of some universities and schools, took assignment with UNDP at Kabul to train Afghan civil servants in 2010 and Consultant WMF (MP Project).