Praveen Kishore is an Indian civil servant by profession, a development economist by training and passion, and a keen researcher who has handled a variety of development administration and policy assignments with federal and state governments in India. Kishore has advance degrees in economics, management and public policy from Harvard, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Banaras Hindu University. A bibliophile and voracious reader, he is also engaged in research and writing and has published in reputed journals and magazines on diverse issues, such as social and human development, public health, political economy and governance challenges, and policies in public organizations.