Career
He served from 08.09.72 to 30.06.78. He also taught at the Kennedy School of Government and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University. Upon his return from Washington to India, he pioneered the creation of citizen report cards, a tool for social accountability.
He later went on to be the founding chairperson of a new think tank, the Public Affairs Centre that has taken his work forward.
He had also been on the Boards of the State Bank of India and several international research centers. In recent years, his focus had been on public governance and related issues.
Paul was also the recipient of the Fred Riggs Award of the American Society of Public Administration, and the Nohria award of the All India Management Association. Books:
Managerial Economics (co-author), McGraw Hill, 1977, Managing Development Programs: Lessons of Success, Westview Press (United States of America), 1982, Strategic Management of Development Programs, International Labor Organization, Geneva, 1984, Corruption in India: Agenda Foreign Action (co-author), Vision Books, Delhi, 1997, Holding the State to Account, Books for Change, Bangalore, 2002, Who Benefits from India"s Public Services (co-author), Academic Foundation, Delhi, 2006, The State of Our Cities (co-author), Oxford University Press, 2012, A Life and Its Lessons (Memoirs), Public Affairs Committee, Bangalore, 2012, Fighting Corruption: The Way Forward, Academic Foundation, Delhi, 2013.
The Paradox of India"s North South Divide (co-author), Sage, Delhi, 2015.