Amitava Chaudhuri, PhD has worked for the United Nations, the World Bank, The Commonwealth Secretariat and national governments for about 40 years. He has visited about 70 countries and lived for long periods in southern, central and east Africa, the Caribbean, South and Central Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
He graduated in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in India. He received his Master’s degree in business management from the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK. His doctorate is in e-commerce applications, and he received it from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
The author is 74. He has homes in New Delhi, Kolkata and Gurgaon.