Shiv Shankar Nair is currently the Chairman Emeritus of Suez Holdings and Vanuatu's Envoy Extraordinary to The Commonwealth in London
His background is in Financial Engineering and Government Advisory roles. He is also recognized as a leading practitioner of Conflict Resolution among Sovereign states

Mr.Nair has spent the past twenty years in putting together some of the most iconic infrastructure projects in Africa and Latin America, using Chinese Exim credits, so much so, that the Economist magazine once dubbed him "China's secret weapon in Africa"

As an entrepreneur, he has set up, added value and sold several companies, especially in the "Economies in Transition". He bought, developed and sold off British Borneo Petroleum, an old midcap oil company. In 1995. Along with two local partners he set up the first post-soviet insurance company in The Republic of Georgia, and in 2004 https://www.dreamstime.com/shivshankarnair_info