Naresh Singh

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About Naresh Singh

Areas of Expertise / Skills Sets : Program Planning, Management and Audit Learning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment Social and Development Research Methods (Qualitative and Quantitative) Rich Experience of Working in Development Sector viz. Education, Livelihoods, Health, Agriculture & Rural Development, Urban Development, Water & Sanitation, Corporate Social Responsibility Dr. Naresh Singh has more than two decades of teaching, research, training, consulting and project management experience. His main areas of interest and expertise are Corporate Social Responsibility, Microfinance, Social Entrepreneurship, NGO Management, Public Policy and Business Environment. He has worked with reputed management / sectoral institutions. He has implemented and consulted in several development projects in India and abroad supported by Government of India, State Governments, Small Industries Development Bank of India, National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development. Rashtriya Mahila Kosh, National Minority Development Finance Corporation. Norwegian Agency for Development, German Bank of Development, AusAid, World Bank etc. A UGC-NET scholar, he has received scholarships from reputed national and international agencies like; UGC, Aus-Aid, Central European University Budapest, Dutch Secretariat etc. for his professional and research assignments. During Ph.D. work he was conferred on ‘Professor Radha Kamal Mukherjee Award for Young Social Scientist’ by the Indian Social Science Association for his outstanding research work on development processes and rural poverty in India. He was conferred on ‘Best Teacher of Management Award’ by Bombay Management Association. He has visited Australia and many countries in Asia and Europe number of times. Some of the countries visited by him are Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Hungary, Netherlands and Sweden. He is the Founder President of Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Development Institute.