Naresh Singh - a short biography

Dr. Naresh Singh is currently the Director General of Governance and Social Development Directorate at CIDA’s Policy Branch. He was Principal Adviser, Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods, in the Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP, New York (1996-2001), and Director of the Poverty and Empowerment Program (1993-1996) at the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has worked in more than 40 countries at village and policy levels.

He is also Adjunct Professor at Boston University, School of Public Health, and Visiting Scholar at McGill University. He was Visiting Fellow at the University of Guelph, School of Rural Development (1999-2000), and the Canada Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo, Faculty of Environmental Studies (2000-2001).

He has served as an advisor to several organizations, including the Commonwealth Secretariat, London; the Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., the Consortium of Caribbean Universities for Natural Resource Management, the Foundation of International Environmental Law and Development, U.K., and the Alliance of Small Island States. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law at McGill University.