Madan Mohan Bhatnagar
India

Born in 1934. National of India. Various senior positions in narcotics control and administration in the Government of India (since 1972). Member of the Delhi High Court Bar Association (since 1993).

Bachelor of Law (1956) and Master of Arts in Political Science (1955), Patna University, India. Deputy Narcotics Commissioner (1972-1974). Officer on Special Duty (Narcotics) (1976-1979). Narcotics Commissioner of India (1979-1985). Director-General, Narcotics Control Bureau, Government of India (1988-1990). Member (Anti-Smuggling and Narcotics) of the Central Board of Excise and Customs and Additional Secretary to the Government of India (1990-1992). Author of numerous publications, including: "Current national laws and policies on narcotics control in India", Current Research on Drug Abuse in India, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Research Book; "Drug trafficking: Indian perspective", Narcontrol, Journal of Narcotics Control Board of India. Drafter of the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of India (1985). Drafter of the licit opium production and export policy for India and the national strategy for combating the illicit traffic in drugs for India. Member of the expert group to study the modification of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, Vienna (1982). Chairman of several international conferences on drug control, inter alia, the Tenth Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA), Asia and the Pacific (1983), the Indo-Pakistan Committee meeting against drug trafficking (1989) and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation meeting on harmonization of drug laws (1989). First Vice-Chairman, Second Interregional Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Vienna (1989). Participant in the Indo-United States bilateral talks on narcotics, Washington, D.C. (1989). Participant in the seventeenth special session of the General Assembly (1990). Member of the intergovernmental expert group on the economic and social consequences of drug abuse and illicit trafficking, Vienna (1990). Expert and Vice-Chairman, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) regional seminar on drug abuse, Manila (1990). Head of the Indian delegation to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (1990 and 1992), several meetings of HONLEA and the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East. Vice- Chairman, Commission on Narcotic Drugs (1992).

Member of the International Narcotics Control Board (since 2002). Chairman of the Committee on Finance and Administration (2002). Member of the Standing Committee on Estimates (since 2002). Rapporteur of the Board (2003). First Vice-President of the Board (2004). Member of the Committee on Finance and Administration (2004).