Dr. P.K. Anand is a Visiting Fellow at the RIS, since completion of his stint at the NITI Aayog the think-tank of Government of India and successor to Planning Commission, where he was the lead for SDGs, Development Monitoring & Evaluation, Plan Appraisal and also handled International Cooperation, G-20, Industry, etc. He is equipped with PhD in Economics; and M.Sc. in Physics, and in Economics, latter from the London School of Economics, and holds the degree of Fellow, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. As a member of the Indian Administrative Service, he served in ministries of textiles, defence, and rural development of Government of India; and in Government of Rajasthan headed at district and divisional levels, besides handling Co-operative and Public Sector units and serving in education and industry departments.

At RIS, Dr. Anand is handling the work streams related to Localisation of SDGs and Indices, SDG progress, implementation, monitoring & evaluation; Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for SDGs; South-South Cooperation  and Triangular Cooperation on SDGs; Sustainable Agriculture, Food & Nutrition security and Water.

His Areas of specialization includes SDGs; Multidimensional Poverty, Inequity and Indices; Sustainable Agriculture, Food & Nutrition Security and Water; and Application of Technologies for Sustainable Development.

Details of Recent Publications:

• RIS Discussion Paper # 263: ‘Post-pandemic Social Security Agenda: Universalising Developmental Interventions Over Universal Basic Income’
• RIS Discussion Paper # 269: ‘Skilling, Fulcrum of a Proactive Multidimensional Poverty Tracker Pathway’
• Book Chapter titled, ‘Measuring the distance to 2030 SDG Targets in India and South Asia Imperatives’, published in Springer Nature book titled, ‘Sustainable Development Goals and Pandemic Planning: Role of Efficiency Based Regional Approaches’.
• A Policy brief titled, ‘Sustainable Energy, Food, and Water Systems’ as part of Task Force 10 for T20 Saudi Arabia
• An Article titled, ‘Food and Nutrition Security in G20: Reflections and Critical Gaps’ published in RIS ‘G20 Digest’.
• Policy Brief- ASEAN India Centre, Transition of Agri-Food Systems in MGC Countries: Food Security, Adequate Nutrition and Livelihoods, Mekong-Ganga Policy Brief, No.14, July 2024, ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) and RIS.
• Discussion Paper 287 titled, ‘SDG Targets 2.2 and 4.2 Early Childhood Nutrition and Education: Bedrock of Life-long Equity’ – Covering ‘An Inequity Augmented Lorenz Curve’ as a contribution to literature, besides four other Poverty Sensitising (PS) Indices, including Star Performance Index. The Paper brings out a variant of Vertical Product Differentiation in education market, with focus on Out of School Children (OOSC), and Children with Special Needs (CWSN).

T20 Brazil Presidency 2024: Policy Briefs in TF1

• G20 Traction for Trilateral Cooperation to Achieve G20 Deccan High-Level Principles on Food Security and Nutrition
• Inclusive Digitalisation for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems Transformation.
• Super Food Millets Portraying Smart Food Pathways for Climate Resilience: Fructification of G20 Commitments for Food Security and Adequate Nutrition.
• A Global Common Good: Prioritising Investment in Early Childhood Development, Education and Care to Combat Inequalities, Poverty, and Hunger from the Beginning.

Book chapters

• Anand, PK., Kumar, K., Saini, R and Rao, SP and Arpit, B (2023). Early Childhood Nutrition: Pathways to Nurture. In Pandey, B & Ban, HH.(Eds.).Investing in Early Years in Human Capital for Future Resilience: For an Inclusive and Equitable World. Chapter 7, pp.165-204.  Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi
• Anand, PK., Kumar, K., Saini, R and Rao, SP (2023). Gap Index to Measure Progress on SDGs. In Four Decades of RIS: Conceptual and Methodological Contributions. Volume. II. Chapter 10, pp.153-161.  ISBN: 81-7122-180-7, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi.

Ongoing Work Projects:

• India: Voluntary National Review 2025 on SDGs
• Agriculture and Nutrition sector including interactions with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
• Maritime Sector, including CMEC and constant interactions with the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
• Synergies with ‘Dakshin’ at RIS on Agriculture including Food Security and Adequate Nutrition
• STI for SDGs
• Trajectories : A Test Case of Target 3.1 Maternal Mortality Ratio.