Biographical Notes
Vadim Dubinkin | Vijayendra Kaul | Adrian Strachan | John Muwanga | David Walker
Vijayendra Nath Kaul (India) – Vice-Chairman
Mr. Kaul obtained his Masters degree in history from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and entered the Indian Administrative Service in 1965. He took over as the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India on 15 March 2002 for a six-year term which ended in January 2008.
As Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, Mr. Kaul was the external Auditor of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome; the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva; the International Maritime Organization (IMO), London; and the World Tourism Organization, Madrid.
Mr. Kaul also held senior positions in both the federal and provincial Governments in India. At the federal level, these included two terms as Joint Secretary in the Indian Ministry of Commerce and a later term as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministries of Petroleum and Natural Gas; Coal; and Chemicals. Earlier, he had served as the Principal Secretary in the finance and industry departments in the State government of Madhya Pradesh and as the Chairman of the State Industries Development Corporation, the State Finance Corporation and the State Electronics Development Corporation (in that company, he initiated the setting up of India’s first fibre-optics plant).
Mr. Kaul has also held senior positions in the corporate sector and has served as an independent director on the Board of Directors of various Indian companies, including Tata Exports, Mafatlal Industries, Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation and India’s first Liquefied Natural Gas Importing company, Petronet LNG.
Mr. Kaul is a fellow of the Economic Development Institute, World Bank, and of the ODC University of Manchester, United Kingdom.