Ashok Parthasarathi

Ashok Parthasarathi is a physicist, electronics engineer and S&T Policy analyst. He has held senior positions in the Government of India, including Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Renewable Energy and Scientific & Industrial Research. He was Science Adviser to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He has been the Government of India’s delegate to meetings of UNCTAD, UNE and WIPO. He has provided consultancy fir UN agencies and prepared reports on the acquisition, transfer and development of industrial technologies. He built up the Centre for Studies in Science Policy at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi- the only such centre in South Asia. He has published over 100 papers on issues of S&T policy, and planning and management and has co- edited two books, Pugwash on Self-Reliance (1978) and Scientific Co-operation for Development: Search for New Directions (1988).