**Bhubaneswar:** Vinod Kumar Yadav, IRSEE took charge as Chairman, Railway Board (Ministry of Railways) and ex-officio Principal Secretary to Government of India vice Ashwani Lohani. Prior to this assignment, Vinod Kumar Yadav was serving as General Manager, South Central Railway.
His academic qualifications include a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Technology Management) and a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from Allahabad University, Uttar Pradesh.
He holds immense experience in the fields of Project Management; General Management; Industrial Policy Formulation, Foreign Collaboration & Foreign Direct Investment; Management of Sector Specific International Technical Programmes and Co-ordination of World Bank and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Funding.
He served as the Divisional Railway Manager, Lucknow Division, North Eastern Railway; Additional Divisional Railway Manager (Operation), Delhi Division, Northern Railway; Group General Manager (Electrical), Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited. He also held assignments as Programme Manager, Technology Diffusion and Support Programme and as Project Director, International Centre for Advancement of Manufacturing Technology at United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and as Director, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Industry, Government of India.
He also held an important foreign assignment as Deputy Manager (Electrical), IRCON at Turkey, where he was instrumental in planning, execution and commissioning of Railway Electrification Project for Turkish Railway.
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