Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
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Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (b. May 21, 1915, Madras, India)-(d. November 2, 2003, Chennai, India) was a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving twenty-two years in the UN.
He was appointed to the United Nations in 1956, as Executive Secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and Far East. In 1958, he was appointed Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs in the U.N., to work directly under the U.N. Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, and with Nobel laureate Ralph Bunch.
In 1961, he became Chef de Cabinet in the U.N. His last post was as Under Secretary-General before retirement in 1978.
In 2001, he received a high honour, India's Padma Vibhushan.
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