Janadas Devan

Janadas Devan
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Colony of Singapore
Occupation(s)Chief of Government Communications (Ministry of Communications and Information)
Director of the Institute of Policy Studies[1]
ParentDevan Nair (father)
In this Indian name, the name Devan is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Janadas.

Janadas Devan (born 1954) is a former journalist and the current Chief of Government Communications at the Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore, coordinating the government's public communications. He is also a director at the public policy think-tank Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). Janadas was formerly a senior editor of The Straits Times, the flagship English-language daily newspaper of Singapore Press Holdings.[2] He is the son of C.V. Devan Nair, the third President of Singapore.[3] Janadas studied at the National University of Singapore and Cornell University in New York. He is married to literary scholar Geraldine Heng.[4][5]

  1. ^ Institute of Policy Studies. "Janadas Devan". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2013. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Appointment to the Government Information Service". Ministry of Communications and Information. Archived from the original on 8 September 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  3. ^ Janadas Devan (7 January 2006). Speech by Mr. Janadas Devan at the Memorial Service for the late C.V. Devan Nair (Speech). Singapore Conference Hall. Archived from the original on 20 September 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
  4. ^ Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018), p. xiii.
  5. ^ K. Kanagalatha, 'Mother was our World', The Straits Times (13 May 2018).