Name: Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap (India)
Title: Former Board Member of International IDEA
Education: M.A., LL.B, PH. D. (Allahabad University)
Current and Previous Positions: Dr Kashyap is widely known as an eminent expert in constitutional law and parliamentary affairs and author of many prestigious works. He is the President of the Citizenship Development Society and of Rashtriya Jagriti Sansthan (Institute of National Awakening), the Chairman of the Academy of Grassroots Studies and Research, Honorary Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and honorary editor of the monthly South Asia Politics. He is also a Member of the Governing Board of the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
Previously, Dr Kashyap was Constitutional Adviser to the Government of India on PRI Laws and was a Member of the National Commission on the Review of the Working of the Constitution and Chairman of its Drafting Committee (2000-2002). Earlier, he headed the CIDP at IPU in Geneva and took voluntary retirement from the position of Secretary-General, Parliament of India (Lok Sabha). He has travelled extensively over the world and received awards and honours in India and abroad.
