About Public Policy Puzzle

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Public Policy Puzzle (PPP) is India’s first end-to-end learning and mentoring platform for aspiring policy professionals. We help students, mid-career professionals, and seasoned experts explore, learn, and grow in the public policy ecosystem through tailored learning paths, expert-led mentorship, and a curated library of resources.

Meet the Pillar & Team Behind PPP

Mr. Arun Goyal

Advisory Member at PPP

Mr Arun Goyal is a 1985 batch retired officer of Indian Administrative Service officer belonging to the Union Territories Cadre. He is a former Secretary to the Government of India and a former Member of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission.

He has nearly four decades of experience at the Central, State and Union Territory levels, across crucial domains such as power, finance, commerce, regulatory affairs and public policy. He has contributed significantly to the major reforms and transitions in India including India’s transition from GATT to WTO regime, rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and establishing India’s Financial Intelligence Unit.

He has extensive experience in the power sector. As a Member in the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, he played a key role in finalising important regulations such as the Grid Code, General Network Access Regulations, Power Market Regulations, and adjudicated more than 2200 petitions. He has served three tenures within Delhi's power sector, witnessing its different transformational phases. He played a key part in driving and stabilizing the historic power reforms in Delhi, which resulted in unbundling of the Delhi Vidyut Board and the privatization of the distribution.

Other important positions held by him include Secretary (Coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat; Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, where he headed the Project Monitoring Group; Minister (Economic & Commercial) at the Embassy of India in Tokyo; and Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor in the Andaman & Nicobar Administration.

He is a graduate in electrical engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, an MBA (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He also has an MA in Economics from HP University and MSc in Development Management from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

He is a regular speaker at academic institutes, think tanks, industry events, TV and radio programs and a contributor to newspapers and magazines.