| 13
August, 2010
Courtesy
call of the new Permanent observer
of PPD at the United Nations to the
UN Secretary General
New
York, USA —
M.
Sethuramiah L.N. Rao, the new Permanent
Observer for Partners in Population
and Development (PPD), presented his
letter of appointment to UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon on 13 August 2010 at United
Nations, New York. PPD has designated
Dr. Rao to serve as its Permanent
Observer to United Nations from 1
July 2010 onwards. He replaced Mr.
Jyoti Shankar Singh, who has served
in this position from 2003 to 2010.
Sethuramiah L. Rao (left), new
Permanent Observer of PPD, presents
his letter of appointment to Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
Dr. Rao has, for the past five years,
been a Senior Adviser at the New York
Office of PPD. Prior to this, he held
more than 30 years numerous senior
posts in the United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA) in new York and in the
field. He actually began his work
with the Fund in 1977, as Project
Manager for the United Nations Programme
of Training in Population in Sri Lanka.
Dr. Rao is a Population and Public
Health specialist by background, with
a PhD from the university of Pennsylvania,
and an M.P.H from the University of
North Carolina. He has written several
books and articles on population related
issues such as the UNFPA 2004 report,
Investing in People, which he co-authored.
Dr. Rao is known to be an ardent supporter
of population, gender, reproductive
health and development issues, a promoter
of the Cairo Agenda and the MDGs as
well as South-South Cooperation as
an effective and relevant mode for
accelerating development in the less
developed countries.
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