RAJENDRA COOMARASWAMY, Diplomat, Official. Assistant Administrator & Regional Director, Asia & Pacific, United Nations Development Program.
Education
The son of C. Coomaraswamy, Ceylon"s High Commissioner to India, he was educated at the Royal College, Colombo where he was Captain of Cricket and Athletics and went to the University College Colombo, then an affiliated University of London, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
Career
He was the Assistant Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (United Nations Development Programme) and Director of United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. He had also served as the President of the Colombo Plan Council. Joining the Ceylon Civil Service in 1933, he had served as the Assistant Controller of Exchange, Imports & Exports.
Deputy Commissioner of Labor, Industries & Commerce.
General Manager, Cr Corporation and Secretary, Housing Loan Board. Thereafter he was appointed Assistant Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific in 1961, Secretary General 1971, Assistant Director United Nations Development Programme 1971.
He had been an adviser to the Prime Minister. Cabinet of Ministers in International Economic Cooperation and Alternate for Sri Lanka to the World Bank.