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Biography
Dr. Amar Patnaik is an Indian politician. He was in Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) officer and former principal accountant general (AG) of West Bengal and Kerala.
He had opted for voluntary retirement, nine years before completion of his service and joined Biju Janata Dal in the presence of party president and CM Naveen Patnaik in 29 August 2018. Since 28 June 2019, he is the member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha and general secretary of the BJD Parliamentary Party office, the upper house. He heads the IT-Wing and is also a spokesperson of Biju Janata Dal.
Education
He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University in 1987 after initial schooling in the Demonstration Multipurpose School, Bhubaneswar and the Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College, Bhubaneswar.
He further pursued a master's degree in Public Management from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also completed an inter-disciplinary doctorate from the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar under the Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar on the topic “Institutional Change and Power Asymmetries in the context of Rural India” in 2016. This highly topical research has been accepted for publication as a book by Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore under the same title as a scholarly publication in the public policy domain.
He also has a master's degree in finance and systems from the Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar and a bachelor's degree in law from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.
He was offered the British Chevening Gurukul Scholarship for Excellence at the London School of Economics by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British Government in 2013.
He has also completed an advanced management development programme from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.
His current research interests include institutional perspectives in developmental interventions and public policy, transparency and accountability, public finance reforms, urban sector governance, energy security, environment and sustainability issues.
