A brief on his career-sketch
 Prof. Ved Prakash has held eminent positions in a number of premier organizations dealing with Higher Education, School Education, and Personnel Selection. Prior to assuming the charge of the Office of the Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC) on February 6, 2011. Prof. Ved Prakash served as Vice-Chairman, UGC; Vice-Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi, and Secretary, UGC.
Prof. Ved Prakash also served as Adviser, Education, Planning Commission, Government of India, where he was actively associated in the finalization of the plans and projects of the Education Sector. As Professor & Head, Department of Educational Measurement and Evaluation, NCERT; as Associate Professor, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection, Bombay, and as Joint Director, Staff Selection Commission, Government of India, New Delhi, he had been instrumental in designing multiple types of Achievement & Aptitude Tests relevant both for identification of talent and personnel selection, as also for conducting nation-wide Achievement Surveys.
A recipient of the US Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship, he was a visiting Faculty at the Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, Canada and a Guest Faculty at the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID), Harvard University, Cambridge. He also worked as a Consultant for the World Bank for reforming secondary education in Nepal.
Prof. Ved Prakash has participated in several national and international conferences and has authored a number of books, articles and research papers on a wide spectrum of areas concerning higher education, educational planning and administration and school education.
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