Performance management in Government: a conversation with Praja Trivedi

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Performance management in Government: a conversation with Praja Trivedi

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October 29, 2019 9:34 am

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This content is provided by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

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The Business of Government Radio Hour, hosted by Michael J. Keegan, features a conversation with a federal executive who is changing the way government does business. The executives discuss their careers and the management challenges facing their organizations. Guests include administrators, chief financial officers, chief information officers, chief operating officers, commissioners, controllers, directors, and undersecretaries.

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Prof. Prajapati Trivedi is a Senior Fellow (Governance) and a Director, Economic, Social and Sustainable Development Directorate, Commonwealth Secretariat, London. Previously, Professor Trivedi was an Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Indian School of Business (ISB), where he directed a project on ‘Regulating the Regulators’ and was the Faculty Chair for the Management Programme in Public Policy (MPPP). In addition, he was also a Visiting Economics Faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Prior to joining ISB, from 2009-2014, he worked as a Secretary to the Government of India in the Cabinet Secretariat, where he was responsible for designing a highly regarded whole-of-government performance monitoring and evaluation system for government departments and reporting the results to the Prime Minister of India. He worked as a Senior Economist with the World Bank from 1995-2009; Economic Adviser to Government of India (1992-1994) and a Chaired Professor of Public Sector Management at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (1987-1992). He received M.Sc. (Economics) from London School of Economics in 1972 and Ph. D. (Economics) from Boston University in 1985. He is author of four books and several academic papers.