Dr V N Alok is a senior faculty in the Indian Institute of Public
Administration (IIPA) and has been teaching public finance since 1999. He
has been the Member of Delhi Finance Commission and contributed, to
almost all successive Union and State Finance Commissions since 1995 in
different capacities. He conceptualized the ‘devolution index’, by ranking
States, and constructed it annually during 2009-15. On the basis, the Prime
Minister awarded the top ranked States every year on the National Panchayat
Day celebrated on the 24 th April.
He has led and conducted many research studies funded by the
Constitutional bodies, Union and State Governments in India, multi-lateral
organizations in range of public policy issues. Dr Alok has written number
of books and articles to reputed journals & economic dailies on spheres of of
public finance and policy. His recent book from Palgrave Macmillan on
‘Fiscal Decentralization in India: Outcome Mapping of State Finance
Commissions’ was recently released in IIPA jointly by the Chairman, 15 th
Finance Commission, India and the Finance Secretary, Government of India
Dr Alok has designed and conducted various international and national
training workshops for policy makers and senior civil servants, in parts of
Asia and Africa as well as Brazil, on spheres of public finance including
fiscal federalism, tax reform, local governments etc with the support of the
Government of India, the World Bank, the Forum of Federations, Canada
and Hanns Seidel Foundation. He has also organized Induction Programme
for Joint Secretaries/Directors/Deputy Secretaries joined Government of
India through Lateral Entries in 2019 and 2022.
Dr Alok has been a member/member secretary (equivalent to the Secretary
to Government of India) of a many policy making committee/commission.
He is a University Grants Commission (UGC) nominee in many educational
committees. He co-edited quarterly journal on urban affairs namely,
Nagarlok. He is a referee for many international journals & publications and
an examiner of Economics for the most competitive examination of the
country.
