Dipa Singh Bagai

Dipa Singh Bagai comes with over 30 years of experience and substantive technical specialization in public policy, institutional strengthening and public sector reform at the international, regional, country and sub-national levels, including in complex political contexts; where she has provided capacity development support, policy and strategic advice and vision and leadership to complex program while leading and mentoring multi-cultural and diverse teams.

A member from the Indian Administrative Service from the batch of ’83, Ms Bagai has worked at the national, state and district levels. She has also worked with international organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Food Programme. Ms Bagai has also been worked as Advisor to Ayushman Bharat - India’s National Health Authority, providing capacity development strategy, organizational strengthening and building networks for the organization. She was responsible for building the capacities of the organizations of the state health authorities thereby creating these authorities in every state so that they can move forward with the implementation of the program.

With a unique combination and background of international work on institution building, systems strengthening and capacity building, Ms Bagai comes with a broad understanding of various thematic issues in health and nutrition, livelihoods development, women’s empowerment, education, environment, climate finance and disaster risk reduction, rural and urban infrastructure and services.

She has a BA and an MBA degree from the University of Lucknow and an M. Phil in Development Economics from the Sorbonne University in Paris.