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USISPF appoints Rohit Kumar Singh as Global Value Chains Chair
The appointment strengthens USISPF’s work on resilient global supply chains.
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Staff Reporter - Mon, 09, Feb 2026
- 13:32 EST
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Rohit Kumar Singh / USISPF
The U.S.–India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) appointed former secretary to the Government of India Rohit Kumar Singh as chair of its Global Value Chains Committee and advisor to the USISPF board of directors.
In his new role, Singh will work with USISPF’s global membership and government stakeholders to advance resilient and diversified supply chains, with an emphasis on regulatory alignment, infrastructure readiness, and public–private collaboration.
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USISPF said strengthening global value chains is central to improving India’s competitiveness, accelerating manufacturing, boosting exports, and supporting long-term economic growth through deeper integration into global trade networks.
Commenting on his appointment, Singh said, “The next generation of global value chains will be digital, data-enabled, and trust-anchored. India’s investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, and digital public goods create an unprecedented opportunity to integrate more deeply into global supply networks.”
“I look forward to collaborating with USISPF to foster innovation, resilience, and regulatory cooperation that enhance competitiveness and deliver tangible economic outcomes,” he added.
Singh is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1989 batch from the Rajasthan cadre and has held senior leadership roles across economic governance, infrastructure, consumer markets, digital governance, and public health.
Most recently, he served as Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India, where he led the rollout of India’s first AI-enabled grievance redressal ecosystem. During his tenure, consumer courts nationwide were digitized with e-filing, case tracking, and multilingual video conferencing.
In 2023, more consumer cases were disposed of than filed. He also expanded the National Consumer Helpline into a 17-language, omni-channel platform and led policy initiatives addressing dark patterns, algorithmic transparency, and data fairness.
“Rohit Kumar Singh brings an exceptional depth of policy experience and executional leadership to USISPF,” said Mukesh Aghi, president and CEO of USISPF.
“From pioneering AI-enabled consumer governance reforms to advancing large-scale public–private partnerships and innovative financing for infrastructure development, his work reflects the kind of institutional leadership needed to strengthen global value chains and economic resilience,” he added.
Singh has also played a key role in infrastructure and public–private partnership reforms. He led initiatives to revive PPPs in national highways through the Hybrid Annuity Model and oversaw asset recycling via the Toll Operate Transfer model, which resulted in foreign direct investment of about $1.5 billion in the highways sector.
During the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020, he served as additional chief secretary, medical, health and family welfare, Rajasthan, where he developed and implemented the Bhilwara Model of containment.
Singh holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. He completed a master’s degree in computer engineering from Clarkson University in New York and later earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University.
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