Editing Manmohan Singh (section)

== Early career ==
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After completing his D. Phil., Singh returned to India. He was a senior lecturer of economics at [[Panjab University]] from 1957 to 1959. During 1959 and 1963, he served as a [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] in economics at Panjab University, and from 1963 to 1965, he was an economics professor there.<ref name="Bhushan">{{cite book |last1=Bhushan |first1=K. |last2=Katyal |first2=G. |title=Manmohan Singh: Visionary to Certainty |date=2004 |publisher=APH Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-8176486941 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEaDKgzcs3gC&pg=PA2 |access-date=25 November 2019 |archive-date=11 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611102935/https://books.google.com/books?id=QEaDKgzcs3gC&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Then he went to work for the [[United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]] (UNCTAD) from 1966 to 1969.<ref name="CSIR" /> Later, he was appointed as an advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Trade by [[Lalit Narayan Mishra]], in recognition of Singh's talent as an economist.<ref name="Advisor">{{cite news |title=Manmohan Singh |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/manmohan-singh |work=India Today |agency=Living Media India Limited |access-date=13 July 2020 |archive-date=13 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713140220/https://www.indiatoday.in/manmohan-singh |url-status=live }}</ref>

From 1969 to 1971, Singh was a professor of international trade at the [[Delhi School of Economics]], [[University of Delhi]].<ref name="CSIR" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Detailed Profile: Dr. Manmohan Singh|url=http://www.archive.india.gov.in/govt/rajyasabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=2|website=india.gov.in|access-date=23 July 2015|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923173358/http://www.archive.india.gov.in/govt/rajyasabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=2|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1972, Singh was chief economic adviser in the Ministry of Finance, and in 1976 he was secretary in the Finance Ministry.<ref name="CSIR" /> In 1980–1982 he was at the Planning Commission, and in 1982, he was appointed governor of the [[Reserve Bank of India]] under then finance minister [[Pranab Mukherjee]] and held the post until 1985.<ref name="CSIR" /> He went on to become the deputy chairman of the [[Planning Commission (India)]] from 1985 to 1987.<ref name="dr mms" /> Following his tenure at the Planning Commission, he was secretary general of the [[South Centre (organization)|South Commission]], an independent economic policy think tank headquartered in [[Geneva]], Switzerland from 1987 to November 1990.<ref name="India – Head of Government">{{cite web|url=http://www.thecommonwealth.org/YearbookInternal/172024/head_of_government |title=India – Head of Government |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201163629/http://www.thecommonwealth.org/YearbookInternal/172024/head_of_government/ |archive-date=1 December 2008 }}</ref>

Singh returned to India from Geneva in November 1990 and held the post as the advisor to Prime Minister of India on economic affairs during the tenure of [[Chandra Shekhar|Chandra Shekar]].<ref name="CSIR" /> In March 1991, he became chairman of the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]].<ref name="CSIR" />