Ajay Chhibber

Who is Ajay Chhibber?

Ajay Chhibber is the first Director General of India's Independent Evaluation Organisation with the status of Minister of State, recently established to assess the effectiveness of India's development programs. From July 2008 to July 2013 for five years he was former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant Administrator for the United Nations Development Programme.

Chhibber received his training as an economist at Stanford University, USA, and at Delhi School of Economics, India.

At UNDP, Chhibber managed the Asia-Pacific programmes covering 39 countries spanning from Iran to the islands in the South Pacific. Prior to that, he worked at The World Bank for nearly 25 years on a range of development issues, managing its programmes in Viet Nam, Turkey, Macedonia, Indonesia and the Pacific. He also worked in the research department on public finance and public economics. Chhibber was the lead author of the seminal work on Governance at the World Bank and the 1997 World Development Report on the Role of the State. Chhibber has also worked at the Planning Commission and at the International Food Policy Research Institute. He has also taught economics at Georgetown University and the University of Delhi.