CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
"India and the Flowering of Democracy"
Speaker: Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner of India
Friday, 9
March 2007
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served
Perkins Room, 4th Floor,
Rubenstein
Building, KSG
Mr Wajahat Habibullah was appointed India’s first Chief Information Commissioner in October 2005, to implement the Right to Information Act (2005). A retired senior civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), he has spent over 15 years in Jammu & Kashmir, including key appointments as Divisional Commissioner and Special Commissioner. He also served as Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, and as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministries of Textiles and Panchayati Raj. He retired from the IAS in September 2005.
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