Indian Economic Service

Profile

Ms. Vandana Aggarwal

Date of Birth	:	25 May 1961
Gender	:	Female
Date of Entry into Service	:	26 Feb 1986
Date of Superannuation	:	31 May 2021
Mother Tongue	:	Hindi
Languages known	:	English, French, Punjabi

Mode of Recruitment	:	Direct Recruitment
Present Grade	:	HAG
Date of entry into present Grade	:	29 Apr 2020
Present Posting	:	Ministry of Civil Aviation
Present Designation	:	Senior Economic Adviser
Nature of post	:	Cadre
Domicile State	:	Delhi
Place of domicile	:	New Delhi

Detailed CV	:	View

Educational Qualifications

Degree	University/Institution	Subject/Subject of specialization	Year of passing/completion	Achievements
Graduation	University of Delhi, Lady Shri Ram College for Women	B.A (Hons.) Economics	1983	First Division
Post-Graduation	University of Delhi, Delhi School of Economics	M.A (Economics)	1985	Second Division
M. Phil
PhD	University of Delhi, Department of Financial Studies	Ph.D. (Direct)	2016	Course Work completed. Thesis under finalisation
Post Doctoral

Diplomas / Certificate Courses	Alliance Francaise de Delhi	Diplome d'etudes en Langue Francaise (Moyen)	1983

Whether Study leave has been availed by the Officer	:	Yes
		Details regarding the course attended /Ph D completed during the period.
		Ph.D. in Financial Studies, enrolled in 2014, University of Delhi, Department of Financial Studies. Course work completed, Thesis preparation is underway. Topic is A Study of Investment and Regulatory Aspects of Deep Sea Mining in the Indian Ocean.

Details of Posting in IES

Grade	Designation	Place of Posting	Brief description of duties	Date	Total Time period	Category
JTS	Assistant Director	Ninth Finance Commission, Government of India	Reported to Economic Adviser. Research and analysis on various aspects of Centre, States and UTs financial and fiscal matters. Notable work done was on normative assessments of taxable capacities across direct and indirect taxes of States and expenditure	2 Apr 1988 - 31 Dec 1989	1 Years, 8 Months, 29 Days	Other Deputation Others Finance Commission
JTS	Assistant Director	Office of Economic Adviser, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Industry, Government of India	Assigned to Industrial Policy, Trade Policy, and Fiscal Policy Divisions. Core focus of work responsibilities was on the economic reforms in industrial, fiscal, trade, financial and monetary policies, notably, New Industrial Policy 1991, introduction of p	1 Jan 1990 - 18 Nov 1991	1 Years, 10 Months, 16 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Director	Office of Economic Adviser, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Industry, Government of India	Assigned to Industrial Policy, Trade Policy and Fiscal Policy Divisions. Responsibilities included formulation and implementation of the industrial policy, including reform of industrial licensing and MRTP Act, and the changes introduced under the New Ind	19 Nov 1991 - 23 Dec 1993	2 Years, 1 Months, 4 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Director	Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance	Assigned to External Commercial Borrowings, Infrastructure and Investment Divisions. Financial and monetary policies, including policies, regulation and management of India’s external commercial borrowings’ portfolio, credit rating of India and public	24 Dec 1993 - 4 Jan 1996	2 Years, 11 Days	Cadre
JAG	Deputy Secretary	Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India	Assigned to Trade Policy Division. Trade negotiations under the Doha Work Programme of the WTO on behalf of India in assigned areas, notably agriculture sector and non agricultural goods, all accessions to the WTO, including of China, Russia, Vietnam, and	5 Jan 1996 - 19 Jun 1998	2 Years, 5 Months, 13 Days	CSS Deputation
JAG	First Secretary (WTO)	Permanent Mission of India to the WTO, Government of India	Conducting trade negotiations in the WTO in assigned areas, including industrial and agricultural goods, trade facilitation, customs valuation, rules of origin, balance of payments, IPRs, trade policy reviews, and intergovernmental disputes, under overall	22 Jun 1998 - 2 Jul 2002	4 Years, 11 Days	Other Deputation Foreign Posting
NFSG	Director	Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India	Assigned to Trade Policy Division. Responsible for agriculture sector negotiations and overall negotiating position under the Doha Work Programme of the WTO, regional trade agreements, and disputes in agriculture and on the Agreement on Sanitary and Phyto	5 Jul 2002 - 31 Jul 2007	5 Years, 27 Days	Cadre
NFSG	Director	Planning Commission, Government of India	Assigned to Secretariat for Infrastructure Development, and also held additional charge as Private Secretary to Deputy Chairman for about 6 months. Infrastructure PPP projects in power, telecom and water supply and sanitation sectors, financing of infrast	1 Aug 2007 - 28 Dec 2009	2 Years, 4 Months, 28 Days	Cadre
NFSG	Director	Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India	Assigned to TS Cell. Handled external, political, intelligence, strategic and judicial matters, internal and external security, law and order, disaster and crisis management, and atomic energy, space sectors. Special responsibility from April 2010 to Apri	29 Dec 2009 - 18 Jan 2012	2 Years, 20 Days	CSS Deputation
SAG	Adviser	Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India	Assigned to TS Cell. External, political, strategic and judicial matters, internal and external security, law and order, disaster and crisis management, and atomic energy, space sectors.	19 Jan 2012 - 16 Apr 2012	2 Months, 27 Days	Cadre
SAG	Economic Adviser	Ministry of Environment, Forests, & Climate Change, Government of India	Divisional Head for Economic Cell, Plan Coordination, Trade and Environment, and Environmental Information System. Work included administering the Centre of Excellence in Environment Economics, policy matters related to environmental economics. Coordinate	17 Apr 2012 - 30 Sep 2014	2 Years, 5 Months, 13 Days	Cadre
SAG	On Study Leave	Ministry of Environment, Forests, & Climate Change, Government of India	Ph.D. in Financial Studies, University of Delhi, Department of Financial Studies. Topic is “A Study of Investment and Regulatory Aspects of Deep Sea Mining in the Indian Ocean”.	1 Oct 2014 - 30 Apr 2017	2 Years, 6 Months, 29 Days	Cadre
SAG	Economic Adviser	Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India	Divisional Head of Economic Regulation, Air Cargo, Skills Development, GST, Competition Issues	5 May 2017 - 20 Jul 2017	2 Months, 15 Days	Cadre
HAG	Economic Adviser (Additional Secretary Grade)	Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India	Divisional Head of Economic Regulation, Aircraft Financing and Leasing including Project Rupee Raftaar, MRO, Air Cargo, Krishi Udaan, Regional Transport Aircraft and aviation manufacturing ecosystem, GST and taxation, competition issues, and Covid Lockdow	21 Jul 2017 - 28 Apr 2020	2 Years, 9 Months, 8 Days	Cadre
HAG	Additional Charge of Senior Economic and Statistical Adviser	Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India	Head of Directorate. Responsible for substantive and administrative matters as per AOBR, incl.analyses and advice on agriculture policy formulation, incl. on food economics and MSP, cost of cultivation, markets and prices data collection, dissemination, a	29 Apr 2020 - 26 Jun 2020	1 Months, 27 Days	Cadre

Personal/Study Leave (if any)

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On Study Leave for Ph.D. in Financial Studies, University of Delhi, Department of Financial Studies, from October 2014 to April 2017. Topic is “A Study of Investment and Regulatory Aspects of Deep Sea Mining in the Indian Ocean”.

Training

Details of In Service training (Both Domestic and Foreign whether debarred from foreign training, if so, the details thereof) attended by the officer sponsored by the cadre.

Year	Name of the training course	Name of Institute	Venue	Period of Training (in weeks)
2011	Compulsory Mid Career Training Programme for IES Officers	Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow	Lucknow, India	6 weeks
0	IES Probationer	Institute of Economic Growth, Bankers Training College, and others	New Delhi, Mumbai, and other locations	17 months

Details of Training Programme attended by the officer sponsored by the Ministry/Department in which they were posted

Year	Name of the training course	Name of Institute	Venue	Period of Training (in weeks)
1994	Debt Management	Commonwealth Secretariat	London, UK	2 weeks
1996	Dispute Settlement	World Trade Organisation Secretariat	Geneva, Switzerland	1 week

Any specific area or subject where the officer would prefer to be trained, for current assignment and for long term career progression.

Training for Current assignment	:	Aviation Finance
Training for Long term Career Progression	:	Economic Regulation

Publication & Awards

Please mention contributions, if any, like publication of articles in journals/ publication of books/paper presentations in seminars or workshops or conferences by the officer during the tenure in IES.

Nature of Activity	Name	Topic	Description	Year of publication
Article in Journal/Newspapers	Indian Economic Review Vol. XXVI No. 1 1991	Central Transfers to Offset Fiscal Disadvantages of the States, Measurement of Cost Disabilities and Expenditure Needs	Fiscal Federalism	1991
Paper Presentation(Conferences/Seminar)	International Seminar on Public Economics	Centre State Fiscal Transfers in India: Some Issues of Design and Measurement	Assessing taxable capacities and expenditure needs for greater equity in fiscal and financial transfers	1990
Article in Journal/Newspapers	Journal of Comparative Economics	Commands and Controls Planning for Indian Industrial Development, 1951 to 1990	Reform of Indian industrial licensing and regulatory regime	1990
Paper Presentation(Conferences/Seminar)	Seminar on Industrial Growth Prospects, organized by GoI and Govt. of Karnataka	Policy Initiatives and Opportunities for Indian Industry	Challenges and opportunities for industrial sector of Karnataka following the industrial, trade and fiscal policy reforms introduced by the Central Government	1993
Others	India International Trade Fair	Towards a Second Green Revolution and Regulating Trade through the World Trade Organisation	Agriculture sector opportunities for India arising from the new proposals under the WTO	2004

Specialization

Area of specialization of the officer	Grade	No. of years of specialization gained
Agriculture	JAG,NFSG,HAG	10 Years
Planning	NFSG	2 Years
Economic Regulation	STS,SAG,HAG	6 Years
Research, Data processing & Analysis	JTS,NFSG,HAG	4 Years
Environment	SAG	3 Years
Financial Markets	STS	3 Years
Infrastructure	STS,NFSG	4 Years
Trade	JAG,NFSG	12 Years
Commerce & Industry	JTS,STS,JAG,NFSG	14 Years
Public Finance	JTS	2 Years
Capital Markets	STS	2 Years
Transport	SAG,HAG	3 Years

Specific area of interest/field of work where the officer would prefer to be placed.
Agriculture, Economic Regulation, Financial Markets, Trade, Commerce & Industry, Capital Markets, Transport

Subject/Area or topic preferred by the officer to deliver a lecture, whenever required.
Agriculture, Economic Regulation, Financial Markets, Infrastructure, Trade, Commerce & Industry, Capital Markets, Transport

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