* 29 years experience in the Indian Administrative Services, serving in senior executive positions as Collector Latur and Solapur, Municipal Commissioner Pune and PCMC and Secretary to Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Principal Secretary, Revenue and Forest and Addl. Chief Secretary to Chief Minister.
* Worked in senior leadership position in the United Nations for 7 years in Geneva: Global Head of UNDP Geneva Post Conflict Recovery Unit in Geneva (2002 to 2005), and Senior Co-ordinator, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Geneva for over sight over regional offices of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, for policies on mainstreaming disaster reduction in development programmes. Implemented post Conflict Recovery programme in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sudan, Angola, Congo, Nepal, Ivory Coast.

* London School of Economics, MSc Social and Economic Policy, First Division 1999