Career
In 1986,Nair rose to the post of Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Trade and Industry where he was involved in the Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations,as well as with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). From 1989 to 1997,Nair was Singapore's Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Defence. In 1997,he left the civil service to become the CEO of the Post Office Savings Bank of Singapore;the bank was acquired in 1998 by the Development Bank of Singapore and Nair stayed on as DBS's Managing Director.
Nair was appointed to a five-year term as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services on 24 April 2000,succeeding Karl Paschke in that position. In 2000,he wanted to determine vulnerability of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme for Iraq. Benon Sevan,the head of the programme,along with UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette,rejected any such investigation,claiming that it would be too expensive to be worthwhile. [1]
He was appointed the Singapore Consul General in the emirate of Dubai [2] in August 2005 and served there for 6 years. In June 2011,Nair was appointed as the Singapore Ambassador to Laos and was posted in Vientiane. After completing his term in 2013,Nair was appointed as Singapore's High Commissioner to Ghana,residing in Singapore. Nair completed his term in 2017. Nair is currently an Independent Director on three public listed companies in Singapore:Keppel Data Centre REIT,Thakral Corporation,and Singapore Reinsurance. Nair is also on the board of the Agri-Food &Veterinary Authority of Singapore and the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore.
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