Madhukar Gupta

Madhukar Gupta

.Madhukar Gupta is the State Election Commissioner of Rajasthan, India. He holds an influential position equivalent to that of a High Court Judge.

He has had a distinguished professional and academic career. He served as a senior official in the elite Indian Administrative Service. He is an Electrical Engineer, MBA and law graduate. He was a Mason Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he graduated with a Masters in Public Administration (with distinction). He received a scholarship from the Indian Government for a Masters in Public Policy to study at Maxwell, Syracuse. He was subsequently awarded a PhD in Economics.

Madhukar worked as Secretary in the Ministry of Public Enterprises and Heavy Industries for several years. He focused on Public Policy in the U.S. and China while working with experts on economic growth, public-sector management, infrastructure, corporate finance and development at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Syracuse, Maryland, Cornell and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has won many national awards in India, and universities have hosted him as a visiting faculty and scholar, including the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, where he has been an adjunct faculty for more than 20 years. He has presented professional papers in nearly three dozen countries.

He has worked with the national Government in New Delhi and the regional governments of Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. He has also been Team Leader in the United Nations Development Programme, and consultant to the Asian Development Bank and the Sri Lankan Government, the non-profit sector and the cooperative sector. He was Managing Director of the State Road Transport Corporation and the State Cooperative Dairy Federation, Principal Secretary of the Higher Education and Transport Departments and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rajasthan and Rajasthan Agriculture University.

Madhukar coordinated relief efforts for the Bhuj earthquake for the United Nations and helped resolve the Gurjar agitation for the Rajasthan Government. He has spent about fifteen years as a practitioner as Divisional Commissioner in four Divisions, District Magistrate in three districts and Sub-Divisional Magistrate in two areas.

He is an instrument of change in India, and will take on even more leadership positions in the years to come.