Dr. TVSN Prasad, IAS, Distinguished Professor of Economics & Public Policy
Dr. Prasad is a leading economist and former Chief Secretary of Haryana. An IAS officer from the 1988 Batch, he has over 37 years of experience at the World Bank, Government, Public and Private Sectors. Dr. Prasad earlier served as the State Finance, Revenue and Treasury Secretary, leading and helping present several consecutive budgets before the State Legislature. He also established India’s first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Coordination Center and linked budgetary public finance allocations targeted at people focused SDG outcomes. He earlier served in the Government of India, as Mission Director of National Mission for Clean Ganga and later as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Dr. Prasad was an Edward S. Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management and a John Kenneth Galbraith Scholar in Infrastructure Economics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He later served as Lead Infrastructure Coordinator and Senior Economist at the World Bank for several years, crafting its policies on power, oil and gas sectors, national economic policies, investments, and infrastructure expansion. Dr. Prasad was credited for conceptualizing and delivering International Development Association’s largest Partial Risk Guarantee operation leveraging several billion dollars of mid-stream investments from several multinational companies. This initiative received the World Bank’s Corporate Excellence for the positive effect it had in the Niger Delta and for contributing to the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Initiative.
Dr. Prasad holds a PhD in Economics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Dr. Prasad completed his doctoral research on the topic “Evaluating Capital Allocation with Factor Share Altering Elasticity of Substitution” providing much needed insights into the relationship between capital allocation and economic efficiency in public finance.
Ph. D in Economics – Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Master in Public Administration – Harvard University – Infrastructure Economics, Macro-Economic Policy, Public Finance, Industry and Regulation Analysis (J K Galbraith Scholar, Edward S Mason Fellow in Public Policy Management)
Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering) – Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
Public Finance, Macro Economic Growth and Development Economics
Norwegian Journal of Developmental Sciences-Evaluating Capital allocation with factor share altering elasticity of substitution.
The Stranded Asset Problem in the Economy – A new perspective following Acemoglu
Authored a book – “Monitoring Performance of Electric Utilities - Indicators and Benchmarking....” - Published by World Bank (2009)
Published a formal report in English and French– Energy Sector Management Assessment Program - Regulatory review of Power Purchase Agreements - World Bank - (2008)
International Association of Energy Economics - “Nigeria’s Electricity Sector - Electricity and Gas Pricing Barriers” (2007)
Contributed a chapter in - “Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria” - co - edited by Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University and Catherine Pattillo of the IMF - Macmillan publishers (2006)
"Alternate approaches to electricity reform strategies" (Academic paper at Harvard University - Academic supervisor: Prof Henry Lee) (2004)
"Electricity Market Design in India" (Academic paper at Harvard University - Academic Supervisor - Prof. William Hogan -Research Director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group. This paper examines the subsidy issue as a stranded asset problem, grid access under the Indian Electricity Act, energy sector reform initiatives and emerging trends of standard market design) (2003)
Presented paper at International Electricity Distribution Technology conference at Nice, France (2008)
Paper at International Carbon Conference at Cologne -Germany - Carbon Finance methodologies (2006)
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