Chandran nair biography of albert

BIOGRAPHY

Chandran Nair (b. Kerala, South India) arrived in Singapore in and was educated at Raffles Institution ( ) and the National University of Singapore () from which he holds a BSc and an MSc (Marine Biology).

Nair’s first work experience was as an administrator with the British Council, Singapore, but he chose to become a publisher first as the Manager of Eastern Universities Press, then as Assistant General Manager of Federal Publications and finally as the founder and AGM of Times Books International before leaving Singapore to become a specialist in book development for UNESCO in Karachi, Pakistan ().

He was transferred to UNESCO headquarters in Paris in and has worked in Asia, Africa, South America and the Caribbean as well as in Europe and retired from his UN career as a divisional director in but continues to reside in France.

Nair started writing at nine years old while in Havelock Road School, Singapore, but his poems were first published in The