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Gopinath Pillai
Gopinath Pillai is a Singaporean diplomat of Indian origin and business person. He is an Ambassador-at-large for the Government of Singapore. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2012, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
==Biography==
Gopinath Pillai was born in Singapore to Villayil Raman Gopala Pillai, a journalist who ran a daily, ''Kerala Bandhu'', known to be the only Malayalam language daily published outside India.〔 He spent eight years of his childhood in the Indian state of Kerala where his family is from, as he could not return to Singapore after a visit to his native place due to the World War II.〔 Afterwards, with the closure of the daily, his family finances dwindled and Pillai opted for government funded education.〔 His graduate studies were at the University of Malaya where he was a member of the Socialist Club and secured the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1961.〔
His career started as a journalist with Reuters〔 but had to abandon the job to fulfill his commitment to the government to work as a teacher, a prerequisite for availing government funding for education in Singapore.〔 Later, he joined Bangkok Bank〔 as Economic Research Officer and also worked as a correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review.〔 He worked with the bank for five years and moved to Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Bhd as an economist during which time Singapore became a separate country in 1965.〔 He stayed in Malaysia till 1969 and when country was rocked by riots of a racial nature, he returned to Singapore with his family to take up an appointment as the head of a Government run textile factory.〔 The next two moves were to United Industrial Corporation and then to the State Trading Corporation, Singapore〔 for a total service of around 10 years.
Gopinath Pillai attends conferences and seminars and delivers keynote addresses.〔〔〔 He has authored two books, ''The History of Banking in Thailand''〔〔 and ''The Political Economy of South Asian Diaspora: Patterns of Socio-Economic Influence''. Pillai is married and the couple has four children.〔
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