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Mr.Raj Liberhan

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Mr. Liberhan is currently the Director of India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. He has varied experience with a significant range of responsibilities at the senior level in government, public sector and NGO environment; building and sustaining organisations, programmes and missions with sector specific objectives and services; formulating initiatives for developing policy parameters in the urban development, environment and literacy sectors. He has a specialisation in establishing mission philosophy and governance profiles for civil society on civic issues and literacy and creating and sustaining Economic and Financial systems for large organizations ( at the Macro Level).

Project Management:

  • Budget formulation, budget management, Resource mobilisation and Fund management.
  • anning and formulating projects.
  • Conceptualising and developing program focus.
  • Managing and coordinating project implementation.
  • Project and programme review.

Economic and Financial Administration:

  • Processing of project approvals vis-a-vis their feasibility economic viability, funding patterns etc., and monitoring their implementation.
  • Project appraisal, review and evaluation for financial viability.
  • Financial evaluation and negotiation of contracts.
  • Design and implementation of relevant MIS for commercial projects.
  • Identification and finalisation of organisation’s investments.
  • Mobilisation of resources through banks and allied firms and leading financial institutions.
  • Designing and marketing appropriate debt instruments.
  • Coordination and direction of all financial accounts, audit and administrative functions.

CONSULTANCY
Consultant to UNDP/UNIDO, New Delhi
(October 2000 – February 2001)

Expert Member, Urban Planning Group for Study undertaken on the `Gurgaon Green City Project’ to be implemented with technical assistance from Green City, Denmark. The study was to help prepare a blue print for integrated city management system.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Government Enviornment

As a civil servant in the Government of India, I handled various assignments in the ministry and field offices of the Director finance, from December 1972 to 1995. During my tenure with the Government, I had assignments with the Ministries of Shipping and Transport and Commerce & Supply.

Budget formulation:

  • Prepared annual plan proposals for the Ports sector in India including the 6th five-year plans. The approved plan form part of the plan budget.
  • Monitoring of the progress of plan implementation including fund releases.
  • Budget implementation and management information system.
  • Overseeing the treasury functions in the line ministries of Shipping and Defence and Supply including payment processing, preparation of account reports and presentations of annual accounts for the sector.
  • Monitoring inter governmental settlement of accounts.
  • Interacting with Central Bank for settling governmental transactions.
  • Financial evaluation and negotiation of contracts for supplies.
  • Implementing finance terms of procurement contracts for the Central procurement agency of the Government of India.

Audit:

Assigned with internal auditor responsibilities to audit and review government expenditure in defence and preparation and submission of audit reports to the executive authorities.