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CHANDRIKA PRASAD SRIVASTAVA


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He was an Indian civil servant, international and diplomat. He started his career as a in India. He was the Joint Secretary to the Indian 's office from 1964-1966, during the premiership of . He became the first of the Shipping Corporation of India. In 1974 he was elected to serve as the of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a based in London, serving successive four-year terms as Secretary-General from 1974 to 1989. He played a pioneering role in the establishment of the International in Italy, and the International in Malta. He was also the first of the Sweden-based World Maritime University which was founded in 1983 to address a pressing need for maritime professionals in the world. He was honoured with Padma in 1972 and Padma , in 2009.