June 2019 \ BUSINESS AND GOVERNANCE
Jagjit Pavadia re-elected

Jagjit Pavadia has been re-elected with the highest number ...

India’s UN Mission, which is lobbying in New York among the member countries to for his election, recently hosted a luncheon at the Big Apple in his honour. A member of the Indian Revenue Service, Pavadia is a former Narcotics Commissioner of India. She was elected to the INCB in 2014 for her first five-year term. She was the First Vice-President of the Board in 2016 and Chair of the Standing Committee on Estimates in 2015 and 2017.

The Vienna-headquartered INCB has quasi-judicial powers to monitor the implementation of the UN’s international drug control conventions. The INCB, while ensuring that adequate supplies of narcotics are available for medical and scientific purposes while combating their diversion as well as the illicit drugs manufacture and trafficking.




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