Dr Siripurapu Kesava Rao is an Indian economist and development expert who served the Commonwealth Secretariat in various diplomatic capacities from 1978 to 2001: first in the Economic Affairs Division and subsequently as Director, Strategic Planning and Evaluation Division. He was member of a task force charged with restructuring the Commonwealth Secretariat (1991-93) and member of the Secretary General’s Management Committee (1993-2000). From 1986 to 1987, Dr Rao was Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.
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- Interview with Sir John Major
- Witness Seminar – Britain in the Commonwealth: The 1997 Edinburgh Commonwealth heads of Government meeting
- Interview with Hon Alexander Downer
- Interview with Abdul Minty
- Interview with Billie Miller
- Interview with Kamalesh Sharma
- Interview with Dorienne Rowan-Campbell
- Witness Seminar Participants, March 2014
- Witness Seminar – The Commonwealth Secretariat, Economics and Development, and Global Politics
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