12th meeting of the Steering Committee of Working Group on Environmental Auditing Jaipur, INDIA 3rd to 6th October 2012

CURRICULUM VITAE OF MR. VINOD RAI COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA

Mr. Vinod Rai took over as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on 7th January 2008. Mr. Rai has wide and long experience of working in various capacities at both the Federal and State Governments. His previous position was as Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, where he was responsible for managing the Financial Services sector. He has been a Director on the boards of several public sector and private companies including the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, and Life Insurance Corporation of India. Mr. Rai has also been the Principal Secretary (Finance) in the State Government of Kerala, and has held senior positions in the Government of India in the Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Defence.

Mr. Rai is responsible to ensure that diverse authorities under the government act in all financial matters in accordance with the Constitution and the laws and rules framed under it. His primary role is to ensure financial accountability in the governance process. He is also responsible for auditing the accounts and related activities of all the three tiers of government i.e. the Federal, State and Local. These include Government of India ministries/departments, departments of the State Government, state owned public commercial enterprises controlled by the Federal and State Governments, non-commercial autonomous bodies and authorities financed by the Federal and State Governments, Local bodies responsible for municipal activities etc.

Mr. Rai is currently the Chairman of the U.N. Panel of External Auditors. He is also the Chairman of Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI). He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). He has the responsibility of steering INTOSAI’s Knowledge Services and Knowledge Sharing Committee and the Working Group on IT Audit as Chairman of these Fora. He is also a member of the Professional Standards Committee and Sub-Committees on Compliance Audit and Performance Audit of INTOSAI and also of INTOSAI’s Working Group on Environmental Auditing and its Task Force on Communication Strategy.

Mr. Vinod Rai (born on 23.05.1948) has a Masters Degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, USA.

He is a keen tennis player and his other interests include gardening, trekking and mountaineering.