B GangaiahGangaiah Bollempalli Dr. Gangaiah Bollempalli is Additional Director General Centre for Good Governance. After completing his BA in Economics, he completed MA in Economics- Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, M. Phil; International Studies- School of Iternational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Ph.D., Economics at Osmania University. Before joining CGG he was Economic and Statistical Adviser (Additional Secretary), Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi . In the Government worked in Planning Commission and other key central ministries of Agriculture, Rural Development, Urban Development and Small Scale Industries and exposed to working of macro and micro level programmes/project interventions. Also worked in Rural Development Ministry for four years handling support to micro-level interventions of economic and social empowerment, community mobilization in six major states of India Besides long experience in the Governmen, he has worked in International donor funded projects of DFID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Global Fund on HIV, TB, and Malaria for about 7 years in health sector covering aspects of HIV/AID prevention, care social marketing and health advocacy. He was involved in consultancy studies for several international agencies like World Bank, UNIFEM, ILO, UNAIDS, DFID, NOVIB, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Deutsch Bank Asia Foundation, Humanist Association of Norway, Family Health International on wide ranging subjects including Health, HIV/AIDS, Gender, Irrigation, Livelihoods and Migration, Poverty and social reform. Dr.Gangaiah published several articles and research papers on agriculture, health, evaluation, ecological economics. Read More Read Less