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About Samuel Paul
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- Samuel Paul (11 April 1930 – 26 October 2015) was an Indian scholar, economist, former visiting professor at Harvard Business School, advisor to the World Bank and the UN Commission on Transnational Corporations, and was a professor and the second director of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.He served from 8 September 1972 to 30 June 1978.
- He also taught at the Kennedy School of Government and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University.
- Upon his return from Washington to India, he pioneered the creation of citizen report cards, a tool for social accountability.
- He later went on to be the founding chairperson of a new think tank, the Public Affairs Centre India that has taken his work forward.
- Other organisations that he helped launch are the Public Affairs Foundation, the Coalition Against Corruption and the Children's Movement for Civic Awareness.
- He had also been on the Boards of the State Bank of India and several international research centres.
- In recent years, his focus had been on public governance and related issues.
- He was the first Asian to be awarded the Jit Gill Memorial Award by the World Bank, in 2006.
- Paul was also the recipient of the Fred Riggs Award of the American Society of Public Administration, and the Nohria award of the All India Management Association.
- Government of India honoured him with Padma Shri in 2004.Books: Managerial Economics (co-author), McGraw Hill, 1977, Managing Development Programs: Lessons of Success, Westview Press (USA), 1982, Strategic Management of Development Programs, ILO, Geneva, 1984, Corruption in India: Agenda For Action (co-author), Vision Books, Delhi, 1997, Holding the State to Account, Books for Change, Bangalore, 2002, Who Benefits from India's Public Services (co-author), Academic Foundation, Delhi, 2006, The State of Our Cities (co-author), Oxford University Press, 2012, A Life and Its Lessons (Memoirs), PAC, Bangalore, 2012, Fighting Corruption: The Way Forward, Academic Foundation, Delhi, 2013.
- The Paradox of India's North South Divide (co-author), Sage, Delhi , 2015.
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