Background
Rao, Sethuramiah Lakshminarayana was born on April 28, 1942 in Mysore, Karnataka, India. Son of Ramakrishniah Sethuramiah and Bhageerathi. came to the United States, 1967.
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Rao, Sethuramiah Lakshminarayana was born on April 28, 1942 in Mysore, Karnataka, India. Son of Ramakrishniah Sethuramiah and Bhageerathi. came to the United States, 1967.
University of Mysore, 1959-1963, Master of Science. United Nations Demographic Center, India, 1966-1967, Certificate Bachelor of Surgery. University of North Carolina, United States of America, 1967-1968, Master of Public Health.
University of Pennsylvania, United States of America, 1968-1971, Doctor of Philosophy. Spoken languages: English, Hindi, Kannada.
Country Director, Ethiopia, United Nations Population Fund since 1991. Chief, Population Data, Policy & Rch Branch, Technical & Evaluation Division, 1987-1990, Chief, Policy Branch, Policy & Evaluation Division, 1982-1987, Chief, Population & Development Section, Policy & Tech Division, 1980-1982, Policy Analysis Officer, Office of Policy Analysis, 1978-1980, United Nations Population Fund, New York. Project(s) Manager & Advisor to Government of Sri Lanka, Department of Technical Cooperation for Development, United Nations, New York, 1974-1977.
Chief, Demographic Centre, Institute of Economic Change, India, 1973-1974. Assistant Professor, Population Studies, Brown University, United States of America, 1971-1973. Statistician, Family Planning, Communication Action Rch, United Nations Demographic Centre, India, 1965-1966.
Lecturer in Statistics, Government College, Mangalore, University of Mysore, India, 1963-1965.
Vice president Mysore Self Reliance Association, Mangalore, 1963-1965, Indo-American Forum for Political Education, New York, 1989-1990. Founder, president New England Kannada Koota, Providence, 1972-1973. Member Delta Omega, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
Married Sudha Bagur Viswanath, August, 1971. Children: Rekha, Kumar.