Kartar Singh

Kartar Singh is Director, International Relations at SRM University, Chennai, as well as adviser and consultant to several Indian and UK organizations engaged in teacher training, school education and environmental conservation. As British Council – South India’s first Deputy Director based in Chennai, he has led programmes and projects in the arts, science and technology, education, management and the social sciences. He has considerable expertise in project cycle management, including project identification, design, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. He oversaw design and management of over 100 projects valued at over 5 million GBP. He helped design the flagship UK-India Education and Research Initiative that has defined the bilateral relationship between the UK and India in science, technology and education. He has fostered schemes for bilateral collaboration in areas like poverty alleviation, gender development, advocacy, and health management, and has led several missions to the UK. He taught Food Science for two years at the Institute of Food Science and Technology, Mumbai and later, worked as a food microbiologist in a central government sponsored project on post-harvest fisheries. He holds professional graduate and post- graduate qualifications in fisheries technology from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. After 32 years’ service, he retired from the British Council in 2012.