Arvind Pande serves as Chairman of J-PAL South Asia, where he advises on research projects and efforts to communicate findings from J-PAL evaluations to senior policymakers in the region.

Pande brings more than 35 years of experience as a career civil servant at the District, State and Central Government Levels in India. He has also worked with the World Bank in Washington D.C., the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi, and the corporate public sector. He has diverse experience in policy formulation and implementation, relating to multilateral and bilateral aid, socioeconomic development projects, industrial policy, scientific institutions, environment policy, and public sector management.

After superannuating as Chairman and CEO of SAIL (India’s largest steelmaker), he has served as an advisor on various issues like banking, industrial finance, industrial relations, land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation, mining policy, environment impact assessment, and corporate social responsibility.