Rita Sharma
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Rita Sharma is Secretary to the National Advisory Council. She joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1974 from where she retired as Secretary to Government of India, Department of Rural Development.
Rita Sharma is a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University, USA with an MSc in Physics from Delhi University. She is on the Board of Trustees of the International Rice Research Institute at Los Banos and the World Agroforestry Centre at Nairobi.
Rita Sharma has several publications including three books: The New Economics of India’s Green Revolution (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. and London), The Forts of India (Collins, London) and The Forts of Bundelkhand (Rupa & Co, India).