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Dileep Nair is a Singaporean diplomat and bureaucrat, who was the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services and head of the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services. In that capacity, he oversaw investigations of wrongdoings related to the United Nations in a range of countries including within the headquarters. The Oil-for-food scandal was initially investigated by Dileep Nair's office before turning it over to the investigating body headed by former United StatesFederal ReserveChairman, Paul Volcker.
Nair completed a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from McGill University in Montreal in 1973. From 1974, he worked in Singapore's Housing and Development Board. And in 1979, he joined the Administrative Service, working in the Ministry of Finance. During his time in the finance ministry, he earned a master's degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in the United States.
In 1986, Nair rose to the post of Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Trade and Industry where he was involved in the Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations, as well as with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). From 1989 to 1997, Nair was Singapore's Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Defence. In 1997, he left the civil service to become the CEO of the Post Office Savings Bank of Singapore; the bank was acquired in 1998 by the Development Bank of Singapore and Nair stayed on as DBS's Managing Director.
Nair was appointed to a five-year term as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services on 24 April 2000, succeeding Karl Paschke in that position. In 2000, he wanted to determine vulnerability of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme for Iraq. Benon Sevan, the head of the programme, along with UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette, rejected any such investigation, claiming that it would be too expensive to be worthwhile.[1]
2005年8月、彼はドバイ首長国[ 2 ]のシンガポール総領事に任命され、6年間その職を務めた。2011年6月、ネア氏はラオス駐在シンガポール大使に任命され、ビエンチャンに赴任した。2013年に任期を終えた後、ネア氏はシンガポール駐在ガーナ高等弁務官に任命され、シンガポールに居住した。ネア氏は2017年に任期を終えた。ネア氏は現在、シンガポールの3つの上場企業、Keppel Data Centre REIT、Thakral Corporation、およびSingapore Reinsuranceの独立取締役を務めている。ネア氏はまた、シンガポール農畜産食品獣医庁およびシンガポール保健科学庁の理事も務めている。
2004年、ナイア氏は汚職と女性職員に対するセクシャルハラスメントという、詳細不明の内部告発を受けて調査を受けた。ナイア氏は5年間の契約期間満了に伴い職を辞し、2005年4月23日に故郷のシンガポールに帰国した。その後、2006年5月、コフィ・アナン事務総長はナイア氏に書簡を送り、職員組合からのすべての告発についてナイア氏の潔白を改めて証明するとともに、ナイア氏が長期間にわたり不必要かつ不当な憶測にさらされてきたことを遺憾に思うと表明した。