{"id":6975,"date":"2025-09-01T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/?post_type=team&#038;p=6975"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:38:04","slug":"abhishek-jain","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/team\/abhishek-jain\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhishek Jain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Dr. Abhishek Jain<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\"> is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of 2002 batch, presently posted as Secretary (Finance, Planning, Public Works, Economics &amp; Statistics), Government of Himachal Pradesh. He has 23 <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW98686499 BCX0\">years experience<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\"> in senior government positions, including Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India; Secretary Home, Education, IT, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Labour<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\"> &amp; Employment in Govt. of HP; District Collector <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Kullu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\">, Hamirpur and Una etc. He holds a PhD (Development Economics), <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Master in International<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\"> Dev. Policy (Duke, USA), Fellow Company Secretary, Advanced Management <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Programme<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\"> in Public Policy (Indian School of Business), <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Masters in Economics<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\">. He has authored India\u2019s first \u2018Handbook on Census\u2019 and around fifty papers on governance and development issues with field evidence as an IAS officer. Abhishek is also a three times World Champion in Speed Typing and Computers, and 12 times National Typing Champion in English, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Hindi<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\"> and Punjabi typing. Conferred with Punjab Rattan, Digital India and Himachal Shree Awards, Abhishek featured in <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Time<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\"> magazine (1996). He holds a Limca Book of World Record for being the world\u2019s youngest and fastest world typing champion. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW98686499 BCX0\">Abhishek has spoken at top academic institutions including Harvard, Duke, ISB, IIT etc.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW98686499 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6978,"menu_order":46,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[45],"class_list":["post-6975","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speakers-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=6975"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/annual-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=6975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}