Arjun Sengupta, Chairman, National Commission on Enterprises in the Informal Sector of India

Arjun Sengupta is a former professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and currently an adjunct professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Chairman of the Center for Development and Human Rights in New Delhi. He is the former UN Independent Expert on the Right to Development and current Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty. He is also the Co-Director, with Professor Stephen Marks, of the Right to Development Project at the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center at The Harvard School of Public Health.

Professor Sengupta has held numerous positions of high office in the Government of India. In the 1980s he was Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India. Subsequently, he was an Executive Director of the IMF in Washington DC, and India's Ambassador to the European Union.

In his capacity as Independent Expert on the Right to Development, Dr. Sengupta reported to the Open-Ended Working Group on the Right to Development at each of its sessions on the current state of progress in the implementation of the right to development as a basis for a focused discussion, taking into account, inter alia, the deliberations and suggestions of the Working Group.