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Our Chancellors:
Speeches and Biographical Sketch
 

C. V. Devan Nair (Chengara Veetil Devan Nair)
1981-1985

 


 


Education
Victoria School, Singapore

 

Career

  
1949-51 Teacher, St. Andrew’s School
 
1954  

Founder member, People’s Action Party and became a member of the Central Executive Committee
 
1959-60 Political Secretary, Ministry of Education
 
1960-64

Chairman, Adult Education Board
 

  
1964-69 Member, House of Representatives, Malaysia
Founder and Secretary-General, Democratic Action Party, Malaysia
 
1964-65, 69-79
 		 Secretary-General, National Trades Union Congress
1979-81 Member of Parliament
 
1981-85

President, Republic of Singapore
Chancellor, National University of Singapore

 
 

 

Offices held

Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Indiana University
Fellow, Southeast Asia Programme, Cornell University
Consultant, American Federation of Labour-Congress of Industrial Organisations
General Secretary of the Singapore Teachers' Union
Secretary of the Singapore Factory and Shopworkers' Union
Chairman of the Prisons Inquiry Commission
President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Asian Regional Organisation)

 

 

Honours

1963 Bintang Bakti Masharakat (Public Services Star)
1976 Hon. Doctor of Letters (University of Singapore)

 

 

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