Devendra Agochiya

Devendra Agochiya has over three decades of rich and varied experience of working with national and international organizations engaged in the fields of youth and social development, training, empowerment and management. He has worked for aout 12 years (1969–80), in senior professional positions, with an international NGO in New Delhi—International Youth Centre. He has worked for about 18 years with the Youth Affairs Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat—first as the Regional Director for Asia and then as Head of the Division based in London, the headquarters of the Secretariat. He has been actively associated with the planning and delivery of a wide range of training programmes for a variety of target groups, including policy makers, senior government and non-government officials, business executives and young people in India and other Commonwealth countries. He is presently working as a freelance consultant with a number of national and international agencies in training and development and related areas.