Chewang Phunsog is an Indian civil servant and the chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) of the Government of India.
[4] Phunsog, a graduate of mechanical engineering, started his career as a member of faculty at the erstwhile Regional Engineering College, Srinagar (presently National Institute of Technology, Srinagar), in 1968 and worked there as a lecturer for three years when he was admitted into the Indian Administrative Service in 1978.
[3] After a year, he took a break and studied Development Economics under Nobel Laureate Arthur Lewis, at the Woodrow Wilson School of the Princeton University, as an Albert Parvin Fellow from 1979 to 1980.
During this period, he also worked as the Advisor to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir[7] for one year when President's rule was imposed in the state.
[10] Phunsog was honoured with a Certificate of Merit by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir during the Independence day celebrations of 1983.