Experience

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

• India
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Government Nominee

  • 2016 - Present

  In June 2016, was appointed as Government Nominee, Institute of Company Secretaries, India, Disciplinary Committee. In 2017, appointed as Chair, High Level Committee (HLC), Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India. The HLC submitted three Reports to MCA during 2017-19. In 2019, appointed Chair, Fact Finding Committee, Institute of Cost Management Accountants, India. Since 2016, Ms. Ghosh is engaged in improving corporate discipline across three statutory Institutes, viz. Institute of Company Secretaries, India, Institute of Chartered Accountants, India. and Institute of Cost Management Accountants, India. Show less



Institute of Health Systems

• India
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Charter Member

  • Mar 2006 - Present

  As Charter Member, Institute of Health Systems (IHS), Hyderabad, as part of a team of diversely experienced medical and non-medical experts, we strive to impart excellence to health system research. With a view to improving health delivery systems, we focus on developing inter-disciplinary skills in training schedules for health/related personnel; on health policy analysis and the application of IT and software skills to enhance service delivery. The IHS services, activities and projects broadly include public health services such as water quality, laboratory upgradation, training, and health system capacity building. We prioritise an annual schedule for field interventions and for health systems research. Show less



Planning Commission, Government of India

• New Delhi

• Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), Senior Advisor

  • Sep 2013 - Nov 2014

  Led a nation wide research project on Maternal and Neonatal mortality, and on the Rashtriya Swasth Bima Yojana, a nation-wide Health Insurance Scheme. Led a nation wide research project on Maternal and Neonatal mortality, and on the Rashtriya Swasth Bima Yojana, a nation-wide Health Insurance Scheme.



International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN)

• India

• Country Representative

  • 2012 - 2013

  Responsible for managing, co-ordinating and directing the IUCN India Country Programme. Resumed contact between the IUCN Asia Program and Government of India. Recovered the backlog and current membership dues owed to IUCN. This restored the financial viability of the IUCN Asia program. Responsible for bringing up to steam and operationalising several pending projects, example, the India-Sri Lanka Mangroves for the Future regional project, valued at USD 200,000; the IUCN India and TATA Steel partnership, valued at USD 469,000/. Responsible for identifying the impact of the IUCN Country Program on policy and program in India. With restoration of dialogue and partnership between IUCN and TATA Steel, IUCN persuaded Government of Orissa to mandate that every industrial / development project along the coastline of Orissa will install appropriate light installations, with an eye on conserving the Olive Ridley Turtle hatchlings. The Dhamra Port Development Authority adopted the Environment Management Plan developed by IUCN, which led to a re-structuring of their governance model on Environment, Health and Safety. Responsible for breaking fresh ground. Negotiated partnerships between state governments and IUCN, not attempted earlier. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in January 2013, between Forest Department, Gujarat and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Signed a Cotract between the Indian National Committee, IUCN India and IUCN Committee, Netherlands to implement (first time in Asia) a USD 81K, titled ‘Leaders for Nature’, so that the corporate sector could leverage environmental / conservation goals and objectives.Developed a fresh regional partnership between India and Maldives valued at USD 456,580, and secured substantial co-finance from the private sector partners (USD 155 K from TATA Chemicals and USD 101 from Taj Hotels). Show less



Government National Capital Territory of Delhi

• Chairman Public Grievances Commission

  • Jun 2008 - Nov 2010

  Responsible for administering a single window authority that provides both a right to information,and simultaneously, is a platform for grievance redressal, additionally, as Appellate Authority, for appeals under the Delhi Right to Information Act, 2001, against every Department of the Government, National Capital Territory of Delhi, including the Delhi Police, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, and the New Delhi Municipal Council. Responsible for reforming the process and outcomes of public grievance redressal, and for implementing Standard Operating Procedures, to enhance access and strengthen accountability. Reduced sharply the redressal of grievances (including summoning of public authorities for personal hearings),from over two years to less than six months. Responsible for running public information campaigns. Advertisements were placed in the newly started Delhi Metro Trains from Anand Vihar / NOIDA to Dwarka, from Jahangirpuri to Gurgaon, from Rithala and Rohini to Dilshad Garden, and from Mundaka to Inderlok. The Public Grievances Commission ensured that over 3 lakh people read about the Public Grievances Commission, Delhi every single day travelling in the Delhi Metro trains. This yielded a sharp increase in incoming grievances and enhanced government's ability to address the unmet needs of residents across the national capital territory of Delhi. Show less



Indian Administrative Service (IAS) - Government of India

• India
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Apr 2006 - Dec 2007

  Responsible for dialogue and discussion with 32 States and Union Territories to ensure that state level legislation (as also the follow up executive instruction) is fully in compliance with the devolution and decentralization envisaged in the 73rd Constitutional Amendment (1992), and has eliminated confused, overlapping and ambiguous responsibilities at different tiers of government. Responsible for building consensus across 13 Ministries in GoI,for an appropriate unbundling of services in their respective Centrally Sponsored Schemes. This substantially clarified the respective roles of state governments and locally elected bodies. With Secretary Rural Development, identified and mapped “A Domain for Panchayati Raj Institutions”. Led the “Report on the State of the Panchayats: A Mid-Term Appraisal and Review” (November 2006), the first baseline survey on the functioning of panchayats across India. Invited civil society to evaluate this report of government in collaboration with Institute of Rural Management, Gujerat. Signed in Islamabad a Joint Working Group Agreement on Local Government with the Government of Pakistan to institutionalize people to people contact. Led to a Pakistan-India Symposium in Lahore. Was responsible for guiding implementation of two grass-root level, nation-wide, mass mobilization campaigns the ‘Panchayat Mahila Shakti Abhiyan’ (Mobilising Rural Women), and the ‘Panchayat Yuva Shakti Abhiyan’ (Mobilising Rural Youth), to co-opt and strengthen early and pro-active participation of women and young people in securing citizen-centric services at the grass-roots. These networks and alliances were invaluable in expanding the coverage and outreach of numerous central and state government initiatives for social, financial and digital inclusion. Show less

• • Sep 2004 - Mar 2006

  Responsible for focusing on governance issues across public health and family well-being as Leader of the Mid Term Appraisal on Health, Nutrition and Family Welfare (HNFW) for the Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-2007). Responsible for examining barriers to good governance across the systems, structures, programs and projects that determine health care delivery in India through multiple channels. Responsible for introducing a paradigm shift by developing the skeletal framework and outline for the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), on which basis the Ministry of Health implemented the NRHM. This aimed to co-opt local governments, to utilise frontline health care structures, and to work towards implementing a seamless delivery of health care from the household upwards. Responsible, as Member, Planning Commission Steering Committees, on Primary Health Care, Secondary Health Care, and on Indian Systems of Medicine, for significant recommendations (since been incorporated into policy and programme), for integration of ante-natal counselling and screening of pregnant women for HIV/AIDS and malaria, for observing public health standards in the implementation of the NRHM, and recommended projects /programs for making households and communities more directly responsible for their well being, so that these constituencies become part of the solution. Show less

• • Jun 2002 - Sep 2004

  Responsible for introducing anti-retroviral treatment with effect from 01 April 2004, for people living with HIV/AIDS, and for making drugs and medicines for HIV/AIDS available free of cost, for the first time in India. The introduction of anti-retroviral treatment (ART) reversed the exclusive focus on prevention of HIV/AIDS, became a game-changer, and was hugely applauded nationally and globally. Responsible for putting in place revised protocols for estimation of HIV after prolonged consultations with ICMR, WHO, UNAIDS, State AIDS Control Societies, research scientists, clinicians, and academicians. Given the trajectory across India, in the spread, incidence and prevalence of HIV, NACO and ICMR, re-examined during 2002-2004, the validity of assumptions adopted in 1998. Responsible for developing and nurturing new partnerships for the National AIDS Control Program. Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pro-actively sought long term partnership with NACO. Responsible for signing contracts to expand the ongoing Gates Foundation AVAHAN program, across the states of TamilNadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and the North East, with rapid upscaling and integration of their interventions addressing STI and prevalence of HIV. Responsible for India discarding its previous focus confined to prevention of HIV, to join the global effort in eradicating HIV/AIDS with high quality drugs and medicines. In retrospect, the introduction of treatment for HIV turned around common perception about HIV/ AIDS. Since then, HIV is being perceived as a chronic condition that can be managed with treatment, to possibly even stave off the onset of AIDS. Show less

• • Mar 1999 - Jun 2002

  Responsible (as Principal Author) for articulating policy, vision and mission mode statement to develop and obtain Cabinet approval for the National Population Policy (NPP), 2000, which continues to define and guide implementation of the nation’s socio-demographic goals. Over the years the NPP, 2000 has prioritised population stabilization, across all Ministries and sectors, as also in the field. Reversed business as usual, by successfully pushing through the introduction of two key contraceptives viz., the Emergency Contraceptive Pill, as well as the intra-uterine device popularly known as Copper T 380 A, from 2002 onwards, free of cost, in the national family welfare programme. As Chairperson, Task Force on Revising Standards and Specifications in the national family welfare program (2001-2002), pursued wide-ranging and intensive stakeholder consultations with every constituency to modernise the design, manufacture, administration and marketing of contraceptives and surgical equipment (not undertaken since 1988). Put together, all these initiatives immeasurably addressed skewed gender priorities, advanced gender justice, decelerated population growth, facilitated reductions in maternal, neonatal and infant mortality, addressed irreversibly, the unmet need for a wider basket of contraceptives, and disseminated widespread awareness on reproductive rights and women’s health. Show less

• • Jun 1997 - Mar 1999

  Responsible for strengthening, augmenting and delivering on long pending urban infrastructure projects, and thereby provided leadership and predictability for the residents of Chandigarh. Completed and delivered on the long pending, slow moving, subsidized housing project in Sector 38, Chandigarh, to address the unmet need for owning a home’, particularly among segments unable to afford high market prices. Identified additional sites for low cost housing for the urban poor across Chandigarh, and commenced on planning, and extension of municipal services. Led the designing and inauguration of Kalagram, the first of its kind tourist destination park in Chandigarh, which has become extremely popular. Commenced and completed the extension of Hotel Mount View, and the re-modelling of Hotel Shiwalik, both prime business convention centres and tourist destinations in Chandigarh. Show less



Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu (Union Territory)

• Development Commissioner and Chief Secretary

  • 1994 - 1995

  Responsible for formulation and implementation of development programs in both UTs, on the west coast of India, with an annual budget of US 35m. for a population of 600,000. Responsible for frequent negotiations with central government ministries for funding and administrative clearances, with a focus on urban development and city planning, public health, education, agriculture, farm and non-farm industry, rural development as well as tourism. Responsible for appraisal of projects and programs in terms of economic returns and distributive effects, besides other policy concerns example, environmental sustainability, public health impacts, gender impacts, as well as impacts on weaker sections and tribals. Responsibility extended to being at all times, Principal Supervisor during implementation and also responsible for post evaluation, besides ensuring compliance with audit and accounting standards.During this tenure, was confronted with the onset of bubonic plague in neighbouring industrial town of Surat. Within my jurisdiction, put in place a rigorous public health regimen for prevention and control, and meticulously administered the same. Result: not a single case of bubonic plague was detected in Daman or in Dadra Haveli. Administered all the Acts and Laws then in force in the Union Territory of Goa, Daman, Diu and Dadra Haveli, an admixture of urban and rural sprawl. Show less



National Capital Territory of Delhi

• Commissioner and Secretary, Local Self Government

  • 1992 - 1994



Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

• Director, Delhi

  • 1985 - 1986



Ministry of Personnel and Administrative Reform

• Mumbai

• Regional Director (Western Region), Staff Selection Commission

  • 1982 - 1984



ARUNACHAL PRADESH INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL CORPORATION LTD

• Financial Services

• Secretary Industries and Managing Director

  • 1980 - 1982



Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation Ltd

• India
• Government Relations Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director,

  • 1978 - 1980



National Capital Territory of Delhi

• Additional District Magistrate

  • 1974 - 1978



PONDICHERY

• France
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sub Collector,

  • 1972 - 1974