Dr Suresh Elected Chairman
of UN Committee

Dr B N Suresh, Director of ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) at Thiruvananthapuram, has been elected as the Chairman of Science and Technology (S&T) Sub-committee of the United Nations Committee On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS) for the current year. He was the nominee of Asian Group of countries for the coveted post. Dr Suresh was elected to the post at the beginning of the 43rd Session of S&T Sub-committee at the Vienna International Centre, Austria, on February 20, 2006.

S&T Sub-committee of UN-COPUOS, which is attended by 69 member states and other international professional organisations, focuses on the international co-operation in the field of space, with specific reference to space science and technology and their applications.

Dr B N Suresh, who is the Director of ISRO’s largest Centre, VSSC, has been leading the Indian delegation to S&T Sub-committee of UN-COPUOS for the past three years. He has made significant contributions to the development of launch vehicle technology and played a key role in formulating a number of bi-lateral co-operation agreements between ISRO and other space agencies.