IAEWP is pleased to announce the appointment of DR. MARKANDEY RAI to the post of Senior Vice President- Global Communications and UN Liaison, with immediate effects.
Dr Markandey Rai is also the Recipient of Ambassador of Peace Award 2009 and “Hind Rattan Award” in 2006
He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics (Econometrics); M.Sc. /M.A. (Statistics (Sociometry)), B.Sc./B.A. Special Hons. (Statistics) and B.Sc. /B.A. Statistics, Sociology, Mathematics.
His current responsibilities are:
Chancellor, The Global Open University Nagaland, India;
Chancellor, IGTAMS University, A.P., India;
President, Global Asia Knowledge Initiatives (GAKI), New Delhi;
President, Foreign Affairs Committee of Indian Council for Int. Coop.;
President, Global Peace and Development Service Alliance (GPDSA) and Member Global Leadership of Global Peace Foundation (GPF);
President, Foreign Affairs Committee, Indian Council for International Cooperation (ARSP);
Executive President, World Spiritual Parliament;
Executive Director, Youth Vocational and Leadership Programme (YouthVal), Raipur, Chhattisgarh;
Member, NABET of Quality Council of India (QCI)
Advisor, Yuvsatta (Youth For Peace)
His past engagements were :
Chief, Inter-Agency Coordination and Parliamentarians Programme, Partner & Youths Branch till February 2014, UN-HABITAT;
Special Assignments and Coordinator, Inter-Agency Affairs, Office of the Executive Director, 2004 -2006, UN-HABITAT;
Elected President, UN Nairobi Staff Union, Nairobi, Kenya, 2001-2003; UNON;
Elected Vice President, UN Nairobi Staff Union, Nairobi, Kenya, 2000-2002 , UNON;
President, SCORUS of IAOS (ISI), 2000-2003, ISI;
Chairman, Joint Advisory Committee of UNON at Nairobi HQ;
Statistician in the Research and Development Division, UN-HABITAT, January 1992-.2000;
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics, University of Nairobi (Kenya), from November 4, 1987 to January 1992 ;
Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Patna University, Patna - 800005 (India) from April 28, 1987 to November 3, 1987 ;
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Dept. of Statistics, Patna University, from April 1986 to April 1987 ;
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Dept. of Statistics, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, from September 1985 to March 1986 ;
Lecturer in Statistics (Assistant Professor of Statistics), Dept. of Statistics, Patna University, from 28 April 1979 to September 1985;
He is also widely travelled, visiting :
Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Kenya, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, U.K., USA, Finland, China, S. Korea, Portugal, South Africa, Indonesia, Singapore, Canada, Poland, Malaysia, Sweden, Romania, Mexico, Egypt, Spain, Libya, Iran, Italy, Philippines, Croatia, Vietnam, Paraguay, Brazil, Chili, Ecuador, Argentina, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Ghana, Lesotho, Greece, Northern Ireland, Estonia, Turkey,Thailand, Jordan, Israel, Nepal, Uganda, Japan.
