Chairperson
Wajahat Habibullah, a distinguished public servant, intellectual, and author, is the former Chief Information Commissioner of India. An IAS officer from 1968-2005, Mr. Wajahat Habibullah has a distinguished record of public service including as secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Textiles, and Department of Consumer Affairs. He has been a member of prominent international and national institutions including a member of the World Bank’s Info Appeals Board in July 2010, a former member of the Advisory Council, Brookings Doha Center, former member, Advisory Council, USIP Education and Training Center, Washington DC, and former Chairman, Board of Governors, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar(J&K). His publications include “Government to Citizens Relationship in the Changing Economic Scenario”, Promise of e-Governance-Operational Challenges, The Protection of Human Rights in a Disturbed Situation, Searching for Common Ground in South Asia. Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm, The Political Economy of the Kashmir Conflict, Special Report 121, USIP Washington DC June 2004, and My Years with Rajiv: Triumph and Tragedy (2020).