N. K. Singh
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Singh at the World Economic Forum on India in 2012
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27 January 1941 Calcutta, India |
| Occupation | Member of Parliament, Economist, Civil Servant |
| Spouse(s) | Prem Kumari Singh (Tiny) |
| Children | Meenakshi Singh, Abhijeet Singh, Madhavi Singh |
| Website | http://web.nksingh.com/ |
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Nand Kishore Singh (N. K. Singh) is a politician, economist and former Indian Administrative Service officer. He is a senior Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since March 2014 after having served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (2008-2014) from Bihar. He has been a senior bureaucrat, Member Planning Commission and handled assignments of Union Expenditure and Revenue Secretary and Additional Secretary Economic Affairs connected with International organisations like World Bank, IMF and UNDP. He was also Officer on Special Duty (India) to Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee. He is currently on the board of Hindustan Times, ICRIER, IMI, Nalanda University as well as connected with the University of Stanford and the India Advisory Committee of London School of Economics and Columbia University. He is the former Chairman, Board of Governors of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon. He is currently the Chairman of the review committee for Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, under the Ministry of Finance (India), Government of India.
Born in Kolkata on 27 January 1941, Singh completed his Senior Cambridge Examination at St. Xavier’s College, Patna before he joined St Stephens College, Delhi for pursuing graduation. He did Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics (DSE) at a time when well-known economists like Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati were on the faculty.
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