India in 1988.He holds a Certificate in International interdisciplinary Course on Children’s rights awarded by the University of Ghent, Belgium in 1996.

As an academic with 33 years of service, he has actively involved in Professional social work and HRM education and training, social research and field work practice in social work and HRM and has trained many batches of Post graduate students who have specialised in the field of Social work and Human resources management since 1972 at the Madurai Institute of social sciences, Madurai, India. Presently, he is a Guest Professor of social work and human resources management and a Senior Advisor at the Department of social sciences/social work, Lady Doak College, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. He has served as a Visiting Professor of the Department of Management Studies, and the Department of Social work at The American College, Madurai, South India during the period 2005-2007.

He has to his credit more than 90 articles on various social issues including HR related issues published in national and international journals and books. He has widely traveled abroad to present scientific papers in international conferences and seminars. He is a Human resources management educator and Social research consultant and involved in HR training activities. His special areas of interest include Professional social work practice, Human resources management, NGO /Civil society governance and management, Project management, capacity building and training for NGOs, child rights, social research, social networking etc.He has had a wide professional experience in designing curriculum on social work, human resources management, Human resources development, family life management, environmental education for children and child rights education and training for school children etc.He has had extensive experience in organising ‘Intensive Family Preservation (family support services) programmes’ for dysfunctional families. He has been actively involving himself in organising networking and capacity building programmes for Indian NGOs in the southern part of Tamilnadu, India. He has served as Lead Researcher of various social research studies undertaken by the Goodwill Social work Centre (NGO), Madurai, India.

He was appointed authorised Research Guide by the Madurai Kamaraj University for Ph.D Candidates in the field of Social work and HRM and he has so far guided three candidates who have qualified themselves for the award of Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) of the Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India.

He is the VICE CONSUL of the First children's Embassy in the World Medjashi- Macedonia. He is an Observer Member of ALNAP, Overseas Development Institute, London, UN and a GU Associate member/Consultant registered with www.globalunification.com. He is a Networker from India and a member registered with of the Global Links Initiative {GLI), United Kingdom. He is the GLI’s Tamilnadu Representative in India.