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	A former Indian Economic Service officer, Dr. Pratap was, till December 2023, Principal Economic Advisor (Secretary to the Government of India level). Earlier, he has worked with the Prime Minister’s Office (as Deputy Secretary) and Ministry of Finance (as Joint Secretary, Infrastructure Policy & Finance) at New Delhi, and the World Bank at Washington DC.

	He was Member Secretary of the Task Force that prepared India's first National Infrastructure Pipeline. In the past, he was part of the Task Force for setting up a Road Regulator, and the chair of the Committee writing the Model Concession Agreement for PPPs in the Urban Water Supply sector. He led the Indian delegation at the G20 Infrastructure Working Group meetings (2018- 2020). He was earlier on the Board of Directors of ONGC Videsh Limited, Indian Railway Finance Corporation, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), Indian Railway Station Development Corporation, North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi), Indore Smart City, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (Beijing) and New Development Bank (Shanghai).

	He has co-authored two books: "PPPs in Infrastructure - Managing the Challenges", published by Springer (Singapore), 2018 and "Infrastructure Financing in India", published by Oxford University Press, 2023.

	He has also published earlier with Oxford University Press, World Bank, SAGE Journal (Vikalpa) of IIM (Ahmedabad), Indian School of Business, University of Melbourne, Economic and Political Weekly, and the popular press including Economic Times, Business Standard, and Financial Express.

	He has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad and Mohali) from 2013 to 2017 teaching a Strategy and Policy elective on Infrastructure and the Private Sector. He has also lectured at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), London School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore), Duke University, University of Maryland, World Bank (Washington DC), IMF (SARTTAC), IIM (Ahmedabad), IIM (Indore), IIM (Kozhikode), IIM (Lucknow), (IIM, Shillong), National Academy of Administration (Mussoorie), Management Development Institute (Gurgaon) and National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP, Delhi).

	He is a recipient of University of Maryland’s John J Sexton and Doctoral Fellowships, a letter of appreciation from the Indian Prime Minister, the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) scholarship, University of Melbourne's Emerging Leaders Fellowship, and Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship of the Schulich School of Business (York University, Canada) and the Investor Leadership Network (ILN).

	Dr. Pratap has a PGDM from IIM, Lucknow (1987) and a PhD from University of Maryland, College Park, USA (2011).
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