Ms. Vineeta Rai is a former IAS Officer and Revenue Secretary in the Government of India.
Vineeta holds a B.A. (Hons) degree in History from Delhi University, B.A. (American History and Politics) from Brandeis University, USA and a visiting Fellow in Public Administration at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. She was voted as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in business in India in 2004.
Vineeta has extensive experience in Public Administration, particularly in the fields of Health Administration and Finance with work experience in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India which interalia included Drugs and Prevention of Food Adulteration and as Secretary Banking, Insurance and Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. She also served as a Director on the boards of several Banks and Insurance Companies.
An Officer of the 1968 IAS batch of the Union Territories cadre, Vineeta was is the first woman to hold the post of Revenue Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.
Vineeta was appointed by WHO as a member of the Global Vaccine Initiative during the period 1990 to Oct 1993. She was also the Mission Director for Immunisation during this period. Vineeta did a five-year stint with the UNFPA from Nov 1993 to March 1999 as the Regional Advisor for Gender Population and Development for South and Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan.
Post retirement, Vineeta Rai was appointed Member Secretary of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission and thereafter member of the National consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (during 2010 to 2014).