Pratap Kishen Kaul (3 July 1929 – 2 March 2007) was an Indian Civil Servant and held several important and sensitive posts in the Government of India. He was from the 1951 batch of the Indian Administrative Service and served as the Cabinet Secretary, Government of India from 1985 to 1986. He was also the Indian Ambassador to the United States from 1986 to 1989. Kaul was a postgraduate in economics from the University of Allahabad, and went on to earn a masters degree in public administration at Harvard University. He died of cancer on 2 March 2007 in New Delhi at age of 77. He is survived by his wife Usha and three daughters.

Career: He served in Uttar Pradesh for 15 years as a 1951 batch IAS officer, before moving to the center as secretary of three ministries and acted as a commerce, finance and defence secretary, for the government of India. He served as cabinet secretary of India from 1985-1986. He also served as alternate governor to International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB).

As a finance secretary, Kaul played an important role in the formulation of policies for export and import promotion, infrastructure for movement and financing of exports and the development of free trade zones in India. Kaul also served as the alternate governor of Asian development bank (ADB), World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Kaul was the chairman of the SEBI appointed committee which oversaw the implementation and facilitation of the SEBI Mutual Funds regulations, 1996. The committee helped the trustees of Mutual funds to best perform their role, so that the mutual funds could be managed more ethically and responsibly. He was the Indian Ambassador to the United States from 1986 to 1989.

     1985-04-27

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