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Shri S.N. Menon today took over as the Secretary, Department of Commerce, in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. Earlier, he had served in the Department of Commerce for almost three and a half years, initially as Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser from February 2001 and then as Special Secretary with effect from September 2003, in which capacity he headed the Trade Policy Division (TPD), handling matters pertaining to multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and regional and bilateral trade agreements.
Shri Menon is an officer of the 1969 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS: West Bengal Cadre).
He has had varied experience of working in the North-East, West Bengal and with the Government of India.
During his earlier tenure in the Government of India from 1985-1990, he worked in the Ministry of Welfare, and was responsible for policy planning in the sector of disability programmes for the mentally and physically challenged. This included coordinating projects and programmes of the Government of India with the State Governments and the non-government sector and for development of proposals for research and technical assistance from UNICEF, UNDP and other multilateral and bilateral agencies.
He spent a year’s sabbatical at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, working in the areas of Panchayati Raj, decentralisation and Centre-State relations.
He was awarded the Hubert H Humphery North-South Fellowship under the Fullbright programme at the Humphery Institute of Public Policy, University of Minnesota, USA between 1981-82.
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