Education
London School of Economics. Aligarh Muslim University. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
civil servant Information Commissioner
London School of Economics. Aligarh Muslim University. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
He currently serves as the Chief Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh. He was the Chief Secretary to the Government of Uttar Pradesh from March 2012 to May 2014. Usmani is an officer of the 1978 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (Institute for Advanced Study ).
Prior to appointment as Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, he worked in different capacities in the Central and state governments of India, including as Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister.
In the international arena, Usmani was Senior Advisor to the Executive Director at the World Bank in Washington, District of Columbia and Minister, Economic Cooperation at the Embassy of India in Nepal. Usmani has an Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and an Master of Science in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics.