Office Bearers

Anant Swarup is a former civil servant with over 30 years of experience in public policy. He was the Additional Secretary in the Department of Commerce. He has a rich experience of handling trade issues, trade remedies, intellectual property rights apart from human resource management, logistics & supply chain. He has handled India’s trade relations with countries in North east Asia, NAFTA, Latin America and ASEAN. He has been the Chief Negotiator for India-EaEU Free Trade Agreement, India-Sri Lanka Free trade Agreement and India-Korea Comprehensive Partnership  Agreement. 

Mr. Swarup has been the longest serving Director General of Trade Remedies, the regulator for trade remedy investigations, having handled more than two hundred trade remedy cases involving all areas viz. anti-dumping, countervailing duties, safeguards, anti-absorption and anti-circumvention.

He has served on very important assignments like the Executive Director in the Railway Minister’s office and the Permanent Mission of India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva. 

Mr. Swarup has also been involved in logistics, being the first few officers to set up the logistics division in the Government of India. He has also been involved in the setting up of the PM-Gati Shakti initiative and the drafting of the national logistics policy.

He holds master’s degree in science and business administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Law.