Virendra Dayal (born 29January1935) is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer and United Nations civil servant who served as Chef de Cabinet to Secretary General of the United Nations for more than a decade. He has served as the director of the Office of Special Political Affairs of the United Nations and as the special envoy who probed the allegations levelled against a number of India politicians including Natwar Singh, a former Minister of External affairs, in the Paul Volcker Committee report of 2005. A former Indian Administrative Service officer and a Rhodes Scholar of 1956 Dayal sat on the National Human Rights Commission of India as a member for twoterms from 1998 to 2006. The Government of India awarded him the thirdhighest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1992, for his contributions to society.
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29 January 1935 (age 90) (Now, Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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