R. K. Mishra, is Senior Professor and Director, Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, is a graduate of International Management Programme, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He has been a Fellow of British Council and Commonwealth Secretariat, He has been awarded Fellowships by UNDESA, ICSSR and UGC (Government of India). He has had research stints at London Business School and Maison Des Sciences De L' Hommes, Paris. He has taught at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and was a visiting Professor at Maison Des Sciences De L' Hommes, Paris. He was associated with the UNDP project on Macro Economics of Poverty Reduction carried out by RBI-Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Banking and Research. He was a team member of the State Fiscal Restructuring Project of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. He is Vice-President, International Association of Schools and Institutes in Administration (IASIA), Brussels. His current interests include civil service systems, financial administration, human resource administration, environmental administration, privatization and restructuring, poverty management and good governance.