The National Council on WTO, Trade & Investment of ASSOCHAM has been working in international
  trade and trade policy. The council is actively involved in supporting the Government towards
  making effective strategies for FTA negotiations, and capacity building of Indian business on traderelated issues; dissemination of information & creating greater awareness among the stakeholders;
  increasing their role and participation in trade policy making.
  The council has been organizing various sensitization workshops on issues related to WTO
  agreements & negotiations for industry representatives and for government officials. It also holds
  stakeholder consultations across the country for seeking inputs on WTO/FTA negotiations, and
  export-related issues. The council has been working closely with the Ministry of Commerce &
  Industry, Government of India; State Governments; and many think tanks, institutions and intergovernmental organizations.
    Nayyar serves as Director-Economics & Policy, Vedanta, prior to this, he was Chief Economist of
  Vedanta Ltd. since October 2018. Before joining Vedanta, he was Officer on Special Duty and Head,
  Economics, Finance and Commerce at NITI Aayog, Government of India between October 2015 and
  October 2018. In this role, functionally equivalent to Joint Secretary, Government of India, he was
  responsible for all policy matters related to the Departments of Economic Affairs, Revenue, Financial
  Services, Investment and Public Asset Management and Commerce. He was Secretary of the InterMinisterial Committee on Sick and Loss-Making Public-Sector Enterprises, Member-Secretary of NITI Aayog's Committee on Strategic Disinvestment.