Academic

Universities

Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi, May 2000 to May 2005.

Chairman, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1987 to 1989.

Government

Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, July 1990 to December 1991.

Economic Adviser to the Government of India, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi, June 1983 to December 1985.

Member of the Indian Administrative Service, 1969 to 1973.

Commissions

Member of the National Knowledge Commission, India, 2005 to 2009.

Member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, ILO, Geneva, 2002 to 2004.

Associations

Conference President, Indian Society for Labour Economics, 2002.

President, Indian Economic Association, 1995.

Trusts

Chairman, Sameeksha Trust, 2005 onwards, and Trustee from 1992: Economic and Political Weekly is a Sameeksha Trust publication.

Trustee, Nehru Trust for Cambridge University, 2002 onwards.