Rohit Kansal is a
senior civil servant from the Indian Administrative Service- IAS. He is currently the Additional Secretary to the Government of
India in the Ministry of Textiles where his responsibilities include textiles,
fashion and sustainability.
He has held
challenging public policy assignments in diverse sectors- trade and
international relations, clean energy, infrastructure, et al. He has been the Director General
of India’s leading fashion school- the National Institute of Fashion
Technology-NIFT and has also led
important economic and infrastructure assignments in the areas of power and
energy, public investment and roads and planning and communication.
He has been an Emerging Leaders Fellow of the Australia-India Institute at the
University of Melbourne, Australia, a fellow of the India Leadership Initiative
at the Ananta Aspen Centre, a Sherpa in the UN
Secretary-General’s High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL), as
well as an expert in the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). He has lectured at various institutions and universities
including in Japan, Cambodia, Australia and India.
He has been
trained at the London School of Economics and at the Indian Institute of
Management Calcutta.