مؤلف: Naresh Singh

Naresh Singh is currently an independent consultant in international development working mainly in the areas of sustainable livelihoods and resilience building in crisis and post crisis situations as well as Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the OP Jindal Global University, Haryana, India. He is the former Executive Director of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and Hernando De Soto and was Principal Adviser on Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He was also a Director General at the Canadian International Development Agency and Program Director for Community Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods at the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Dr. Singh holds an MSc from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi and a Ph D from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He is the author of six books, several book chapters, and numerous journal articles on governance, poverty, and sustainable livelihoods. He was an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Public Health, the Canada Trust visiting professor at University of Waterloo and visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Global Equity Initiative, Fordham University School of Law, and Mc Gill University among others. He has advised several organizations including the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Foundation of International Environmental Law and Development.