About COMNET-IT

Structure of COMNET-IT

Board of Directors

Dr. Mohan Kaul
Director General
Commonwealth Business Council

Dr Mohan Kaul has been Director-General/Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Business Council since its establishment in Edinburgh in October 1997 by the Commonwealth Heads of Governments (CHOGM) to promote trade, investment and private sector involvement in Commonwealth countries.

Over a long career Dr Kaul has been a corporate director, policy adviser to Governments, and a consultant to a number of international agencies, academic institutions and public and private sector organisations. He is a Ph.D graduate from the University of Paris, Sorbonne.

Dr Kaul has shown a commitment in his work, encouraging government reforms and practices of good governance. He was an Adviser to the South African government of President Mandela on reform of the public service and has worked in a number of other countries in advisory and consulting assignments. He has recently published a book on management reforms in government, An Outsider's Inside View, based on his experiences in over twenty countries. He was involved in the establishment of the Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management (CAPAM), based in Canada.

As a senior member of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Dr Kaul encouraged the management and human resource development in public and private sector, including the development and use of Information Technology in the Commonwealth and was responsible for establishment of the Malta based Commonwealth Network for Information Technology (COMNET)

Dr Kaul has served as a UN adviser to the Malaysian Government on areas to do with improving management practices, executive development, information technology policy and systems. Dr Kaul was a member of the United Nations Secretary-General's Task Force on Human Resource Management and Management Efficiency Group

In India, during his tenure as senior faculty at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, Dr Kaul was adviser and Consultant to the Government of India, Public & Private Sector Organisations, including Planning Commission, Electronics Commission, Department of Public Distribution, Shipping Corporation of India, Trade Development Authority, Larson & Tubro, DCM, Electronics Corporation of India, etc. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Dredging Corporation of India and a number of other Institutions. He is a Fellow of Computer Society of India.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of Hewlett Packard Laboratories (India), Governor of the International Council of Computer Communications (USA) and member of the Board of Directors of International Records Management Trust (UK), CAPAM, COMNET and the International Institute of Administrative Services (Brussels).

In his current role as Director General of CBC, Dr Kaul has set a goal of achieving the economic empowerment of the people through private sector development within the Commonwealth over the next decade.