C.V's of ICA Staff

Dr. Chan Ho Choi
Dr. Chan Ho Choi joined the ICA as its Regional Director for Asia-Pacific in January, 2010.

Dr. Choi carries with him an experience of more than 31 years of working with NACF Korea, one of the biggest cooperatives from the region. Dr. Choi in his former capacity used to receive more than 600 co-operators every year from various parts of the world. In 1988 he got Ph.D in Development Communication from the University of the Philippines. He was seconded to the Food and Fertiliser Technology Centre in Taiwan for 3 years (1992 to 1995) where he worked as an Agricultural Economist and then to ICA Geneva as an Agricultural Cooperative Advisor (2002-2005). Upon his return to NACF, Dr. Choi worked with Agricultural Cooperative College as Professor from 2005 to 2007. He has also been the Secretary General of International Cooperative Agricultural Organisation (ICAO) for the past few years and has led seminars on Agricultural Cooperatives, WTO related Issues and Climate Change.


Mr. Rajiv I.D. Mehta
Rajiv I.D. Mehta, presently the Deputy Regional Director with ICA Asia Pacific, is a Business Management Post Graduate and has been working in the cooperative and development sector right from the beginning of his career. He carries with him more than 29 years of experience of working in cooperative and development sector.

Mr Mehta started his career as Senior Management Trainee cum Probationary Officer in State Cooperative Land Development Bank in one of the provinces in India and after having worked with grass root cooperatives for nearly 10 years, he joined ICA New Delhi office in 1990 as Technical Officer, Cooptrade Project and then became Adviser CICOPA Project in India from 1993 to 1999.

He also prepared Integrated Handicratf Cluster Development Scheme of Government of India and sensitized hundreds of senior Government Officers and Community Leaders on the effectiveness of cooperative system in empowering artisans especially women through cooperatives. The scheme was introduced in 2001 and thereafter he joined European Commission as Adviser NGOs in the Development Cooperation division of the EC Delegation in India for India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.

He worked with the European Commission for nearly four years and then again joined ICA Asia Pacific in November 2004 as Director Development. Mr Mehta has assisted the Regional Director of ICA Asia Pacific in conceptualizing, preparing and conducting varied types of projects, programmes and thematic events concerning development of cooperatives in the Asia Pacific region.

He was redesignated to present position on 1 January 2009.


Mr.Yoshimitsu Nakamura
Mr. Yoshimitsu NAKAMURA has been seconded from the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU) to succeed Mr. Tsubasa NAKAMURA since March 2008. He has served in the JCCU for 21 years and has been a staff of its International Department over the past five years prior to the handover. He works as Special Advisor, looking after consumer, university, gender, youth co-operative activities of the ICA in Asia-Pacific. He is also the Secretary to ICA Regional Committee on Consumer Co-operation for Asia and the Pacific, ICA Regional Consumer Sub-Committee on University/Campus Co-peratives and supports ICA Regional Women's Committee for Asia and the Pacific


Mr. K. Sethumadhavan
Mr. K. Sethumadhavan is a graduate from the Punjab University. He joined the ICA Regional Office in 1975. Currently he is working as Planning Officer/Assistant to Regional Director. He is also responsible for various other project activities of the Regional Office. He acts as the Secretary to the ICA Committees on Human Resource Development and Research.



Mr. Kulbhushan Kukreja
Mr. K. Kukreja works as the Finance Officer for the ICA Regional Office since 1987. He holds a Post Graduate/Masters Degree in Commerce with specilization in Accounting and Business Statistics.
He also holds a post-graduate Diploma from a renowned Government Institute for Corporate Law and Management with specialization in Contract Act and Corporate Negotiaons. Mr. Kukreja is also responsible for the accounts and taxation matters of ICA - Asia & Pacific and its staff. He also handles the financial/accounting matters of the ICA Singapore Business office.


Mr. A.K. Taneja
Mr. Ashok Kumar Taneja joined the ICA as a Programme Officer in 1990. He is a graduate with a Post-graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management. Prior to joining the ICA Regional Office, Mr. Taneja worked with the Delhi College of Engineering, the National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation (NAFED) in various capacities.


Mrs. Savitri Singh
Mrs. Savitri Singh has a Masters Degree in Political Science and a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations. Since March 2002, she is working with ICA - Asia & Pacific as Advisor, Gender Programme. She is also responsible for HIV/AIDS Programme of ICA - Asia & Pacific. Prior to joining ICA Regional Office, she worked for eight years as deputy Manager HRD, in Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation of India (TRIFED) and for four years as Deputy Director in-charge of International division and Women Co-operative division of the National Co-operative Union of India.


Ms. Archana Gupta
Ms. Archana Gupta is a Post Graduate in Library and Information Science. She also has Higher Diploma in Co-operative Management, a Diploma in Web-designing, a Diploma in Desk Top Publishing and also participated in various workshops and seminars. She joined the ICA Regional Office in 2003 as a Librarian and Documentation Officer and is looking after the Information and Documentation Centre of the ICA Domus Trust


Ms. Neela Sharma
Mrs Neela Sharma is a graduate from Delhi University. She has also followed post graduate Diploma in Journalism and Higher Diploma in Cooperative Management. She Works as Receptionist and Administrative Assistant. She joined the ICA in 1989.





Mr. Sanjay Gupta
Mr. Sanjay Kumar Gupta joined the ICA Domus Trust as a Accounts Assistant in 2003. He is a graduate in commerce from Delhi University & Post-graduate from H.P. University.