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Amartya, Mittal in PM’s Global Advisory Council

NEW DELHI: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, leading economist Jagdish Bhagwati, diplomat Kishore Mahbubani, technocrat Sam Pitroda and industrialist L.N. Mittal are among the 20 prominent persons who have accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to be members of his Global Advisory Council.

The council is based on the idea that the highly skilled overseas Indian community represents a vast untapped resource that can be harnessed as an input into national development processes in India. The council will be chaired by the Prime Minister.

Others who accepted the Prime Minister’s invitation include Karan F. Bilmoria, Swadesh Chatterjee, Ela Gandhi, Rajat Gupta, Renu Khator, Lord Khalid Hameed, P.N.C Menon, Indra K. Nooyi, Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh, C.K. Prahlad, Tan Sri Dato, Ajit Singh, Vikram Pandit, Shashi Tharoor, Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan and Yusuf Ali.

A report "Amartya, Mittal in PM's Global Advisory Council" (January 8, 2009) said that others [among the 20 prominent persons] who have accepted the invitation to be members include "Tan Sri Dato, Ajit Singh .", adding up to 21. It should have been Tan Sri Dato' Ajit Singh. (Tan Sri Dato' is a Malay title. Mr. Ajit Singh was Malaysia's Ambassador in Vietnam, Austria, Brazil and Germany. He was elected as the first Secretary-General of ASEAN and served from January 1, 1993 to December 31, 1997.)

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