Prof. (Dr.) Naresh Singh

Is Professor and Executive Dean, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy; Director of the Centre for Complexity Economics, Applied Spirituality and Public Policy (CEASP), and Co Director of the Centre for Legal Empowerment of the Poor. He has a transdisciplinary PhD in Environmental Sciences, with more than three decades of public policy experience in senior positions in the United Nations and the Federal Government of Canada.

He teaches courses and does research on Complexity and Public Policy; Legal Empowerment of the Poor; Systems Thinking as a Strategy for Sustainable Development Policy; Applied Spirituality and Sustainable Development Policy, Unity of Knowledge and the Philosophy of Science and Leadership in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world. He has published several books and journal articles. His last edited book published in December 2023 was entitled “Applied Spirituality and Sustainable development Policy”.

Professor Singh was a visiting scholar at many universities, including Boston, Harvard, Fordham, McGill, Waterloo and Guelph. He is presently a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa.

He has been a consultant/adviser to the United Nations Development Program, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Pan American Health Organization, the International Labour Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization.