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Canonical ID: in-sansad-ls-4569 · Entity type: Person (reference)
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Person:notes | Served The United Nations for 29 year career(1978-2007) Under-Secretary-General, Communications and Public Information, U.N., 2001-2007; Executive Assistant, Secretary General, U.N.,1997-2000; Special Asstt.,USA/UN for peacekeeping, 1989-1996; Deputy Chief, Secretariat, UNCHR, 1985-89; Head, Singapore Office, UNHCR, 1981-84; and Public Information Officer, UNHCR, 1978-81;served (i) Board of Overseers, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute; (ii) Advisory Boards of the Indo-American Arts Council, the American India Foundation, the World Policy Journal, the Virtue foundation and the human rights organization `Breakthrough`;appointed an International Adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 2008-11; Fellow,New York Institute of the Humanities and the Patron of the Dubai Modern School; Awards (i) The Pride of India Award, the Zakir Husain Memorial Foundation, Nagpur; and (ii) The Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration, presented by Maharana of Udaipur; Member, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, 2010-12. | eng | in_sansad | in-sansad-ls-4569 | |||