Shashank Priya (IRS) appointed as Govt Nominee Director of SAIL & KIOCL

• Shashank Priya (IRS) has been appointed as Government Nominee Director on the Board of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and KIOCL Ltd

• A 1988-batch IRS officer Shashank is currently working as an additional secretary with the Ministry of Commerce

New Delhi: Ministry of Commerce's Additional Secretary Shashank Priya (IRS), who is also holding additional charge as Financial Adviser in the Ministry of Steel, has been appointed as Government Nominee Director on the Board of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and KIOCL Limited. In the separate filings on Friday, both Steel PSU informed BSE that the Ministry of Steel has appointed Shashank Priya (IRS) as Government Nominee Director on their Boards. He has been appointed as Government Nominee Director of SAIL & KIOCL with immediate effect until a regular incumbent joins the post of Financial Adviser in the Ministry of Steel or until further orders whichever is earlier.

Profile of Shashank Priya (IRS)

Shashank is a 1988 batch Indian Revenue Service (Customs and GST). He is presently working as Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor in Ministry of Commerce & Industry with the additional charge of the ministries of heavy industries & public enterprises, MSME, textile and steel. He has more than 30 years of experience in dealing with issues relating to indirect tax and WTO. He has worked on GST issues in various capacities like Joint Secretary, GST Council, Additional Director General (GST) and Commissioner, GST.

Shashank Priya has a decade of experience of working on WTO issues. He worked for five years as a Professor in the Centre for WTO Studies in the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and dealt extensively with issues relating to WTO and Trade Facilitation. He also worked for five years in the Trade Policy Division of the Department of Commerce as Deputy Secretary/Director. He has represented India in negotiations in WTO Ministerial Conferences in Cancun, Geneva and Hong Kong as well as in numerous WTO Committee meetings. He has also worked in different field formations of Customs and Central Excise such as Central Excise Division, Anti-Smuggling, Appraising, Vigilance and Export Promotion.

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He has acted as a resource person for several reputed institutions and made numerous presentations on GST and WTO issues before a national and international audience in India and abroad. He was the Academic Coordinator for long term WTO Regional Trade Policy Course for Asia Pacific Countries organized by the Centre for WTO Studies in collaboration with WTO, Geneva in 2011 and 2012.

He has contributed articles on WTO issues in newspapers/journals and has written two books, namely 'Review of Trade Policies of India's Major Trading Partners' and 'Trade Facilitation Gap Analysis for Border Clearance Procedures in India.' He also wrote a paper for UN ESCAP, Bangkok on 'Cross-Border Paperless Trade.' He also holds the position of Part-time Official Director on the Boards of the State Trading Corporation of India Limited, MMTC Limited, India International Convention & Exhibition Centre Limited, India Trade Promotion Organization, HMT Limited and Invest India. He is also a member of the Audit Committees of the State Trading Corporation of India Limited, India Trade Promotion Organization and MMTC Limited.

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