DR MARKANDEY RAI is former staff of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). He retired as the Chief of the U.N. Inter-Agency Coordination, Global Parliamentarians and Trade Unions programme of UN-HABITAT based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has served UN-HABITAT on various positions in the last more than two decades of his service to the United Nations.He has honors to address a number of Parliaments and Global Parliamentarian’s forums. He is holding many prestigious and honorary positions in India and abroad and focusing mainly on Sustainable Urbanization, Blue Economy, Youth and Women empowerment through various programmes to achieve Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.
Dr Markandey will be speaking at India Celebrates World Values Day on 16th October from 11.30 to 12.45 BST (UTC/GMT+1) – for more information click here, to join the event on Zoom click here