Harsha Vardhana SinghHarsha Vardhana Singh has worked for over three decades on international trade policy, development, infrastructure regulation and global governance. He is senior fellow at International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), senior associate a International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), and senior fellow of the Council on Emerging Market Enterprises (Fletcher School, USA). He was deputy director-general at World Trade Organization for eight years till 30 September 2013. His direct areas of responsibility included trade in agriculture, services, trade and environment, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and electronic commerce. In India, he was economic advisor and then secretary of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Earlier, from mid-1985 he worked in the GATT/WTO Secretariat for twelve years. He has been adjunct professor at SIPA (Columbia University) and at Fletcher School (Tufts University), taught at Nankai University in China, member of Global Agenda Council on Trade and FDI 2014-2016 (World Economic Forum), chair/member of high level policy committees, chair of WTO dispute settlement panels, and visiting faculty at research institutes on trade and regulation. He is a PhD in Economics from Oxford University where he went as a Rhodes Scholar from India. Read More Read Less