Luciano Lavizzari was my Program Officer at UNDP. His wife is a Thangka and Tibetan art specialist. After so many years, I met him at ESCAP a few years ago when he came for a donor meeting with Swiss aid.
This photo was taken at an evaluation meeting for a series of buyer-seller meetings for selected south Asian countries. The late Ms. Razon Haresco was a family friend, her daughter Prima Lee was a friend both of myself and my sister Delia, and her son Mike was a classmate at UP. She was working at ESCAP’s Trade Division at this time, and later went back to her post as head of Customs in the Philippines.
Dr. Sivali Ratwatte was my Project Manager in Kathmandu, the brother of Srimavo Bandanaraike, uncle of Chandrika Kumaratunga, both former presidents of Sri Lanka, and father in law of Upali Wijewardene, founder of the first Sri Lankan multinational company: everything from aviation to chocolates to newspapers to vehicles. He was in his private Lear Jet bound for Malaysia to inspect cocoa plantations when the plane dived into the sea, no survivors. Sivali had to resign and return to Sri Lanka to head up the company.
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