Executive Record Sheet

Profile

Sumitra Chowdhury

Date of Birth	:	23 Jan 1963
Gender	:	Female
Date of Entry into Service	:	30 Nov -0001
Date of Superannuation	:	31 Jan 2023
Mother Tongue	:	--Not Set--
Languages known	:	--Not Set--

Mode of Recruitment	:	inducted
Present Grade	:	--Not Set--
Date of entry into present Grade	:	3 Jul 2015
Present Posting	:	Department of Economic Affairs
Present Designation	:	Joint Director
Nature of post	:	Cadre
Domicile State	:	West Bengal
Place of domicile	:	--Not Set--

Detailed CV	:	View

Educational Qualifications

Degree	University/Institution	Subject/Subject of specialization	Year of passing/completion	Achievements
Graduation	North Eastern Hill University, Shillong	Economics	1982
Post-Graduation	North Eastern Hill University, Shillong	Economics	1984
M. Phil	North Eastern Hill University, Shillong	Economics	1987
PhD	North Eastern Hill University, Shillong	Economics	1997
Post Doctoral

Whether Study leave has been availed by the Officer

Details of Posting in IES

Grade	Designation	Place of Posting	Brief description of duties	Date	Total Time period	Category
JTS	Research Officer	Embassy of India, Washington D.C.		27 Oct 2003 - 31 Aug 2007	3 Years, 10 Months, 4 Days	Other Deputation Foreign Posting
JTS		Office of the Economic Adviser, DIPP		1 Oct 2007 - 30 Apr 2008	6 Months, 29 Days	Cadre
STS	Assistant Director	Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of agriculture & Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Market Intelligence Unit, Kolkata		2 May 2008 - 26 Sep 2010	2 Years, 4 Months, 25 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Director	Dept of Consumer Affairs		27 Sep 2010 - 31 May 2012	1 Years, 8 Months, 3 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Director	Dept of Economic Affairs, G-20 Secretariat		1 Jun 2012 - 2 Jul 2015	3 Years, 1 Months	Cadre
JAG	Deputy Secretary	Ministry of External Affairs		3 Jul 2015 - 04 Dec 2017 Till Date	2 Years, 3 Months, 28 Days	Other Deputation

Personal/Study Leave (if any)

Training

Details of In Service training (Both Domestic and Foreign whether debarred from foreign training, if so, the details thereof) attended by the officer sponsored by the cadre.

Year	Name of the training course	Name of Institute	Venue	Period of Training (in weeks)
2008	Induction training on Infrastructure Development	National Maritime Academy	Chennai	2 weeks
2008	Induction training on MSME Promotion	National Institute of Micor and Small enterprises	Hyderabad	2 weeks
2008	Induction training on Accounting and Financial Management	National Institute of Financial Management	Faridabad	2 weeks
2008	Induction training on Economics and Growth	Institute of Economic Growth	Delhi	4 weeks

Details of Training Programme attended by the officer sponsored by the Ministry/Department in which they were posted

Year	Name of the training course	Name of Institute	Venue	Period of Training (in weeks)
2013	Financial Markets Programme for IES Officers	Centre for Advance Financial Research and Learning	Mumbai	1 week
2012	G20 Korea Global Leaders Fellowship Programme fully sponsored by Govt. of Korea	Korea Development Institute	Seoul, South Korea	11 week
2012	Public Governence and Economic Development: Singapore's Experience and Lessons for India	Civil Services College, Singapore	Singapore	1 week
2011	Commodities Markets, Derivatives and Finance	Euromoney	London	1 week
2011	Econometrics, Theory and Application part ii	Indian Econometric Society	University of Hyderabad	2 weeks
2011	Econometrics, Theory and Application part I	Indian Econometric Society	Mumbai Indira Gandhi Institute oif Development Research, Mumbai	2 weeks
2015	Macroeconomic Policy	Administrative Staff College of India	Hyderabad	1 week
2016	1st Helmut Schmidt Program on Global Issues	German Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Berlin, Hamburg, Paris	2 weeks
2017	MCTP for IES officers	IIM and University of Maryland	Bangalore and Maryland USA	4 weeks

Any specific area or subject where the officer would prefer to be trained, for current assignment and for long term career progression.

Training for Current assignment	:	Economic Diplomacy
Training for Long term Career Progression	:	International Economic Relations and Macroeconomics

Publication & Awards

Please mention contributions, if any, like publication of articles in journals/ publication of books/paper presentations in seminars or workshops or conferences by the officer during the tenure in IES.

Nature of Activity	Name	Topic	Description	Year of publication
Paper Presentation(Conferences/Seminar)	Korea Development Institute	Mobilizing Resources for Filling Infrastructure Funding Gap		2012
Paper Presentation(Conferences/Seminar)	BOAO Forum for Asia http://www.boaoforum.org/pichlnew/14134.jhtml	Funding Bottlenecks for Infrastructure Development		2014
Publication	UNESCO http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002200/220070eo.pdf	Education for All Universal Elementary Education in Rajasthan		2000
Publication	National Institute of Educational Planning & Administration https://books.google.co.in/books?id=gudoOmXc7J4C&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=Sumitra+Chowdhury&source=bl&ots=143pfeBAby&sig=FVhvOBtOdgCzNPVcOZILdxPUBbs&hl=en&sa=X&	Expenditure on Education		1997

Specialization

Area of specialization of the officer	Grade	No. of years of specialization gained
Research, Data processing & Analysis	JTS,STS	4 Years
Any other (Multilateral and International Economic Relations)	JTS,STS,JAG	8 Years

Specific area of interest/field of work where the officer would prefer to be placed.

Subject/Area or topic preferred by the officer to deliver a lecture, whenever required.
Research, Data processing & Analysis, Infrastructure, Education, Any other

Disclaimer:

For the correctness of information provided in the ER sheet, the concerned officer is responsible.IES Cadre, Department of Economic Affairs or the National Informatics Centre will not be responsible for any decision or claim that is based on the basis of displayed data.

This profile was last updated on: 29th Nov 2018